Title
Performance analysis of fast handover for proxy Mobile IPv6
Abstract
In Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), any involvement by the Mobile Node (MN) is not required, so that any tunneling overhead can be removed from over-the-air. However, during the PMIPv6 handover process, there still exists a period when the MN is unable to send or receive packets because of PMIPv6 protocol operations, suffering from handover latency and data loss. Thus, to reduce the handover latency and data loss in PMIPv6, Fast Handover for PMIPv6 (PFMIPv6) is being standardized in the IETF. Nevertheless, PFMIPv6 has a few weaknesses: (1) handover initiation can be false, resulting in the PFMIPv6 handover process done so far becoming unnecessary. (2) Extra signaling is introduced in setting up an IP-in-IP tunnel between the serving and the new Mobile Access Gateways (MAGs). Therefore, in this paper, we present our study on the protocol overhead and performance aspects of PFMIPv6 in comparison with PMIPv6. We quantify the signaling overhead and the enhanced handover latency and data loss by conducting a thorough analysis of the performance aspects. The analysis is very meaningful to obtain important insights on how PFMIPv6 improves the handover performance over PMIPv6, especially in a highway vehicular traffic scenario where Base Stations (BSs)/Access Points (APs) can be placed in one dimensional space and MN's movements are quasi one-dimensional, so that the degree of certainty for an anticipated handover is increased. Further, our analytical study is verified by simulation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ins.2012.07.016
Inf. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
performance analysis,anticipated handover,pfmipv6 handover process,proxy mobile ipv6,pmipv6 protocol operation,handover performance,handover initiation,data loss,pmipv6 handover process,enhanced handover latency,performance aspect,handover latency,fast handover,packet loss
Base station,Data loss,Soft handover,Network packet,Computer network,Packet loss,Real-time computing,Protocol overhead,Proxy Mobile IPv6,Mathematics,Handover
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
219,
0020-0255
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
MunSuk Kim1637.15
Sukyoung Lee2120.60
D. Cypher320519.81
Nada Golmie444347.24