Evaluating the RSVP mobility proxy concept

Mobility and QoS provision are the two most important burdens to solve before IP becomes truly ubiquitous. Mobile IP and RSVP (resource reservation protocol) are the most visible proposals for those problems. Their interoperability, though, is inefficient. To ameliorate the compatibility problem and performance gap, we have proposed the introduction of the RSVP mobility proxy (see Paskalis, S. et al., "RSVP Mobility Proxy", Internet Draft, 2001; Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, 2001). We present a performance evaluation of our scheme versus the plain RSVP operation.