A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of PMIPv6 over IP-Based Cellular Networks

Author

Li, Yong ; Su, Haibo ; Su, Li ; Jin, Depeng ; Zeng, Lieguang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), a network-based local mobility management solution, is being actively discussed and standardized by IETF recently. Compared with the host-based mobility protocols such as mobile IPv6, PMIPv6 separates mobile node from the involvement of handover procedure and promises easier deployment and better handover performance. The system performance analysis of PMIPv6 is significant to its design and deployment. However, current related work is either restricted to a single performance metric or not considered in a realistic network environment. In this paper, we propose an analytical framework based on IP-based cellular networks. Based on the framework, we investigate the performance of PMIPv6 with respect to various metrics, including signaling cost, handover delay and packet loss, and compare it with host-based mobility management protocols, such as Mobile IPv6, FMIPv6 and HMIPv6. The simulation results demonstrate the salient performance of PMIPv6.

Keywords

IP networks; cellular radio; mobility management (mobile radio); FMIPv6; HMIPv6; IP-based cellular networks; PMIPv6; network-based local mobility management solution; proxy mobile IPv6; Costs; Delay; Laboratories; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Measurement; Mobile radio mobility management; Performance analysis; Performance loss; Protocols; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2009. VTC Spring 2009. IEEE 69th

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2517-4

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073288

Filename

5073288