Title: Seamless integration of MANET and the internet with terminal mobility supported by SIP

Authors: Thirapon Wongsaardsakul; Kanchana Kanchanasut

Addresses: Internet Education and Research Laboratory, Asian Institute of Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand ' Internet Education and Research Laboratory, Asian Institute of Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

Abstract: To provide seamless real-time multimedia communications between Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and the internet, we adopt the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to handle terminal mobility. MANETs can be frequently disrupted, thus a P2P SIP is introduced over an overlay network on MANET, called Structured Mesh Overlay Network (SMON). To connect to the internet, we stretch SMON on MANET to include SMON on the internet and apply P2P SIP on top of this extended SMON, or SMON+. Handoff delays of our proposed scheme were compared with mobile-IP based network mobility approach, or MANEMO. It was found that the mid-call mobility handoff delay of P2P SIP on SMON+ were signicantly lower than that of MANEMO.

Keywords: P2P SIP; peer-to-peer; session initiation protocol; overlay networks; DHT; MANETs; mobile ad hoc networks; terminal mobility; MANEMO; TDP; NINA; mobile networks; multimedia communications; internet; handoff delays.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.047008

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.9 No.4, pp.211 - 223

Published online: 24 May 2012 *

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