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One of the key requirements of the LTE core network is to provide seamless mobility and session continuity at the IP layer across multiple access networks - 3GPP and non-3GPP. Although this can be achieved in LTE networks using Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), two key limitations still exists - handover latency and high packet loss. In this paper, we provided our proposed, designed and implemented novel protocol known as Proxy Mobile IPv6 Plus (PMIPv6+) aimed at addressing handover latency while reducing signaling traffic in the current standardized PMIPv6 implementations. Our experimental tests and performance analysis shows that PMIPv6+ reduces handover latency by 50% while also reducing the packet loss by almost 95% as compared to legacy PMIPv6.
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Oredope, A., Frassetto, G., Evans, B. (2012). An Evaluation of Vertical Handovers in LTE Networks. In: Koucheryavy, Y., Mamatas, L., Matta, I., Tsaoussidis, V. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communication. WWIC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30630-3_17
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