Wireless Shadow Network Setup Through the Mehrom Micromobility Protocol

Due to natural disasters or intentional attacks, large parts of our telecommunication network can be destroyed. The setup of a wireless shadow network can restore the damaged network connectivity. This paper investigates the need for a network layer solution to integrate such a wireless shadow network with the wired network. It presents the combination of the micromobility protocols MEHROM and mobile IP regional registration as an efficient solution to support terminal mobility. The proposed solution is evaluated in terms of control overhead, required storage and calculation capacity, and functional complexity