Analysis of Handover Latency for Mobile IPv6 and mSCTP

This paper analyzes the handover latency of mobile IP and mobile SCTP over IPv6 networks. The analytical results are compared with performance by experiment over Linux testbed. For the analysis, we consider the two handover scenarios: horizontal handover and vertical handover. From the results, we see that the mSCTP handover can provide smaller handover latency than the Mobile IP. Moreover, the mSCTP can give much smaller handover latency for the vertical handover where has enough sojourn time of MN in the overlapping region between different subnet regions, compared to the horizontal handover.