An L3-driven fast handover mechanism in IPv6 mobility

Author

Gogo, Kazutaka ; Shibui, Rie ; Teraoka, Fumio

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Keio Univ., Kanagawa

fYear

2006

fDate

23-27 Jan. 2006

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Several fast handover mechanisms have been proposed to achieve seamless mobility in IPv6. These proposals assume that the network layer of a mobile node can use the link layer information. However, none of them defines how to abstract and utilize the link layer information. This paper defines the abstractions of the link layer information to achieve fast handover in IPv6. This paper also proposes a network layer (L3) driven fast handover mechanism by using the abstract link layer information. The L3-driven fast handover mechanism was implemented on FreeBSD. The measurement results show that the gap time of an L3 handover is only 3-4 msec in our outdoor test network consisting of eight IEEE 802.11a subnets

Keywords

IP networks; mobile computing; transport protocols; FreeBSD; IEEE 802.11a subnet; IPv6 mobility; Internet Protocol; L3 fast handover mechanism; abstract link layer information; mobile node; network layer; test network; Delay effects; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Phase detection; Proposals; Protocols; Sequences; Standardization; Testing; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2006. SAINT Workshops 2006. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2510-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT-W.2006.6

Filename

1581358