Title :
Handoff enhancement in mobile-IP environment
Author :
Woo, William ; Leung, Victor C M
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
fDate :
29 Sep-2 Oct 1996
Abstract :
Mobile-IP and its enhancement, internet mobile host protocol (IMHP), have been proposed to support host mobility over the current Internet. In a distributed mobile data networking environment, frequent handoffs between radio cells are likely to degrade end-to-end data transport performance. This motivates us to propose extensions to mobile-IP and IMHP to enhance transport performance by minimizing loss of datagrams during handoffs. The enhancement employs datagram buffering at the foreign agent serving the mobile host before a handoff. Simulation results illustrate the improvements in transport delays, particularly with respect to IMHP
Keywords :
Internet; cellular radio; data communication; delays; land mobile radio; performance evaluation; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; Internet; data transport performance; datagram buffering; datagrams loss minimisation; distributed mobile data networking; foreign agent; handoff enhancement; host mobility; internet mobile host protocol; mobile host; mobile-IP environment; radio cells; route optimization method; simulation results; transport delays; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Degradation; Environmental economics; Home automation; Performance loss; Roaming; Routing protocols; TCPIP; Tunneling;
Conference_Titel :
Universal Personal Communications, 1996. Record., 1996 5th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3300-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICUPC.1996.562676
