Using Design Patterns in Mobility Management Protocol Design for Multi-Hop Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Developing architecture specific protocols leads to severe limitations in the ability of the mobility management protocol to provide mobility support across wireless architectures. In this article we develop a systematic component based model for the developing mobility management protocols for multi-hop heterogeneous networks using design patterns. This design pattern based approach provides a unified framework to design mobility management protocols for multi-hop networks by choosing appropriate components for the mobility scenario. To illustrate this approach we implement the M³HN protocol on the MCN architecture using this component based approach by using the network simulator (NS-2)