Improving handoff performance of micro-mobility protocol in NEMO and a comparison with SINEMO

Network Mobility (NEMO) basic support protocol is standardized by IETF to provide seamless and uninterrupted services to the mobile hosts in NEMO. Seamless IP diversity based NEMO (SINEMO) outperforms NEMO BSP in terms of handoff latency and related packet loss by utilizing the advanced loss recovery mechanism and multi-homing feature of stream control transmission protocol (SCTP). To support micro mobility in NEMO, HMIPv6 can be used with NEMO BSP which together reduce handoff latency and related packet loss significantly. For further improvement of handoff performance of NEMO BSP, FHMIPv6, the extension of FMIPv6 and HMIPv6 could be utilized in NEMO. In this paper, handoff performance of NEMO BSP along with micro mobility support of HMIPv6 (M-NEMO) and FHMIPv6 (FM-NEMO) are analytically compared with SINEMO based on handoff latency, handoff blocking probability and packet loss during handoff. The numerical results show that FM-NEMO outperforms M-NEMO and SINEMO in terms of above metrics.