Mobile IPV6: Simultaneous and Consecutive Mobility Experiments on MIPL Testbed

Mobility management is crucial for wireless connectivity which has become popular among mobile users nowadays. Mobile IP has been developed in order to enable mobile appliances, such as notebooks, mobile phones and PDA. One of the crucial problems that need to be tackled is mobile network handover. Handover in mobile IPv6 happens when a mobile node moves from one coverage area to another. However there are latency issues and possible packet loss during handover. This project focuses on MIPL (mobile IP for Linux) handover analysis, particularly in simultaneous mobile nodes movement and consecutive mobility in mobile IPv6, by looking at different scenarios and aspects. Findings on measurement of handover latency for Simultaneous mobility were also included in this project, together with the consecutive mobility observation. Various experiments were conducted to determine the handoff latency between the mobile nodes. The testbed network experiments also identify the differences between standard mobile IPv6 procedure and MIPL implementation in terms of return routability process, which is crucial for mobile nodes handoff latency improvements.