Title: On design of a route-optimised and seamless HCoP-B scheme for nested mobile networks

Authors: Ing-Chau Chang, Chia-Hao Chou, Lin-Huang Chang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, No. 1, Jin De Road, Paisha Village, Changhua 500, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, No. 1, Jin De Road, Paisha Village, Changhua 500, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer and Information Science, National Taichung University, 140 Min-Shen Road, Taichung 40306, Taiwan

Abstract: In this paper, we first apply the hierarchical concept to the care-of prefix (CoP) scheme as HCoP and enhance HCoP with a novel binding update tree (BUT) structure as HCoP-B for network mobility (NEMO) management of the nested mobile network. Second, we further extend HCoP-B to support the seamless handoff of the nested NEMO. As compared to schemes such as reverse routing header (RRH), route optimisation using tree information option (ROTIO) and HCoP with numerical performance evaluations, HCoP-B achieves the shortest handoff latency and significantly reduces the consumed network bandwidth of global binding update messages for route optimisations (RO) of all correspondent nodes (CN) after the nested mobile network hands over to a new AR. Besides, HCoP-B also achieves shorter playback disruption time and buffering time than ROTIO does, which is the only one scheme mentioned how to achieve seamless handoff for the NEMO in the literature, for ongoing real-time multimedia applications whenever the mobile subnet in the old nested mobile network hands over to a new one.

Keywords: care-of prefix; CoP; hierarchical CoP; HCoP-B; NEMO; binding update tree; BUT; seamless handoff; high performance networking; routing optimisation; nested mobile networks; network mobility; mobility management; playback disruption time; buffering time; multimedia applications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2011.038710

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2011 Vol.7 No.1, pp.53 - 62

Published online: 21 Mar 2015 *

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