Performance Evaluation of Reactive and Proactive Handover Schemes for IP Micromobility Networks

Author

Johnson, Thienne ; Prado, Rodrigo ; Zagari, Eduardo ; Badan, Tomas ; Cardozo, Eleri ; Westberg, Lars

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Campinas, Campinas

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Micromobility protocols aim to improve localized mobility by reducing the handover overhead. The Mobility Plane Architecture (MPA) was designed to support micromobility in standard IP or MPLS/GMPLS networks in a network-centric way, that is, the burden demanded by micromobility is placed on the network, not on the mobile nodes. The aim of this paper is to present the reactive and proactive handover procedures supported by MPA, its modeling and performance evaluation. Results show that the proactive handover loses much less packets than reactive handover, being more suited for multimedia traffic.

Keywords

IP networks; mobile computing; multiprotocol label switching; protocols; IP micromobility networks; MPLS-GMPLS networks; mobile nodes; mobility plane architecture; proactive handover schemes; reactive handover schemes; Access protocols; Communications Society; Computer architecture; Manufacturing; Multiprotocol label switching; Peer to peer computing; Routing protocols; Security; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. WCNC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2947-9

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917896

Filename

4917896