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Performance Analysis of Hierarchical Mobile IPv6: Does it Improve Mobile IPv6 in Terms of Handover Speed?

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There has been a rapid growth in the need to support mobile nodes in IPv6-based networks. IETF has completed to standardize Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) for supporting IPv6 mobility. Even though existing literatures have asserted that HMIPv6 generally improves MIPv6 in terms of handover speed, they do not carefully consider the details of the whole handover procedures. In this paper, based on the current IETF standards of both MIPv6 and HMIPv6, we conduct a comprehensive study of all IP-level handover procedures: movement detection, duplicate address detection, and location registration. Based on this study, we provide a mathematical analysis on MIPv6 and HMIPv6 performance in terms of handover speed. From the analysis, we reveal that the average HMIPv6 handover latency is not always lower than the average MIPv6 handover latency. Furthermore, even the intra-domain handover latency of HMIPv6 is not reduced much compared with MIPv6 handover latency. A finding of our analysis is that optimization techniques for movement detection and duplicate address detection are essential to shortening HMIPv6 handover latency and increasing the benefit of HMIPv6.

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Abbreviations

aDAD:

Advance duplicate address detection

AR:

Access router

BAck:

Binding acknowledgement message

BU:

Binding update message

CN:

Corresponding node

CoA:

Care-of address

CoT:

Care-of test message

CoTI:

Care-of test initiation message

DAD:

Duplicate address detection

HA:

Home agent

HMIPv6:

IETF hierarchical mobile IPv6

HoA:

Home address

HoT:

Home test message

HoTI:

Home test initiation message

LBU:

Local binding update message

LCoA:

Local care-of address

MAP:

Mobility anchor point

MD:

Movement detection

MIPv6:

IETF mobile IPv6

MN:

Mobile node

NA:

Neighbor advertisement message

NS:

Neighbor solicitation message

oDAD:

Optimistic duplicate address detection

RA:

Router advertisement message

RCoA:

Regional care-of address

RS:

Router solicitation message

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  1. School of Internet-Media, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan, South Korea

    Youn-Hee Han

  2. College of Information and Communication, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

    Sung-Gi Min

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Han, YH., Min, SG. Performance Analysis of Hierarchical Mobile IPv6: Does it Improve Mobile IPv6 in Terms of Handover Speed?. Wireless Pers Commun 48, 463–483 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-008-9533-y

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