Design and performance analysis of cost-effective and fast inter-domain network mobility schemes

Presently, there are many data and multimedia services available that are supported by Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices. As a result, demand for the ability to connect to the Internet anywhere is rapidly increasing, and network infrastructure becomes increasingly important. In response, there has been focus in the fields of industry and academics on cost-effective network mobility (NEMO) technologies. The cost-efficient protocol design of NEMO is intended to reduce demand for limited wired/wireless network bandwidth at the mobility signaling and packet delivery operations levels. In this paper, we propose a cost-effective mobility management scheme which provides fast handover with multicasting support, efficient inter-LMA domain mobility management, and packet delivery methods in NEMO environments. Our mathematical analysis, the Fast PR-NEMO scheme, is compared with N-PMIPv6, rNEMO, and PR-NEMO. In conclusion, our proposed scheme exhibits the best performance in terms of location, updating cost, and packet tunneling cost.