Paper Info
Title
Performance impact of multihop handovers in an IP-based multihop radio access network
Abstract
This paper presents and evaluates an IPv6-based protocol for the interconnection of ad hoc networks to the Internet. Its main novel feature is the support for different types of multihop handovers between two access routers. This topic represents an essential functionality of multihop radio access networks, but it has not been investigated so far in the context of a testbed. We measure and analyze the performance of different handover schemes in a testbed with IEEE 802.11b and ad hoc routing. We find that a proactive access router discovery scheme yields the lowest handover rate in our setup. Furthermore, it is advantageous to introduce optimizing multihop handovers, which gives mobile devices the opportunity to choose a new, better suited access router in case the hop distance to its current access router increases. Although this additional handover type increases the total number of handovers, it improves the system behavior in terms of handover delay and packet delivery fraction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1137975.1137978
Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
different handover scheme,proactive access router discovery,additional handover type,performance impact,current access router increase,access routers,lowest handover rate,handover delay,multihop radio access network,ip-based multihop radio access,multihop handover,access router,mobile device,radio access network,ad hoc network
Mobile ad hoc network,Computer science,Computer network,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Router,Radio access network,Vehicular ad hoc network,Handover,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
10
2
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philipp Hofmann1525.56
Christian Bettstetter23144257.78
Christian Prehofer393877.43