Measuring and Improving the Performance of Network Mobility Management in IPv6 Networks

Measuring the performance of an implementation of a set of protocols and analyzing the results is crucial to understanding the performance and limitations of the protocols in a real network environment. Based on this information the protocols and their interactions can be improved to enhance the performance of the whole system. To this end, we have developed a network mobility testbed and implemented the NEMO Basic Support Protocol and have identified problems in the architecture which affect the handoff and routing performance. To address the identified handoff performance issues, we have proposed the use of Make-Before-Break handoffs with two network interfaces for NEMO. We have carried out a comparison study of handoffs with NEMO and have shown that the proposed scheme provides near-optimal performance. Further, we have extended a previously proposed route optimization scheme, OptiNets. We have compared the routing and header overheads using experiments and analysis and shown that t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JSAC
• Authors: Henrik Petander, Eranga Perera, Kun-Chan Lan, Aruna Seneviratne
• Keywords: JSAC 2006, NEMO, Performance, Route Optimization