Title: Advanced handover management framework for Mobile Router based on MCoA

Authors: Zhiwei Yan; Huachun Zhou; Hongke Zhang; Chi-Hsiang Lo

Addresses: National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3 Shang Yuan Cun, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100044, China ' National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China ' National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China ' Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan 26047, Taiwan

Abstract: In this paper, we design and implement a handover management framework which can integrate the multiple heterogeneous wireless networks (such as WLAN, GPRS and CDMA) with the support of Multiple Care-of-Address (MCoA) technology in the mobile network. The experimental results in a real network environment show that our proposed architecture can not only support the seamless handover, but also guarantee the scalability because of its modulised design. Besides, an adaptive handover trigger scheme and an access network selection scheme are proposed to initiate the handover and select the target access network intelligently.

Keywords: NEMO; handover management; MCoA; multiple care-of-address; seamless vertical handover; wireless networks; mobile networks; modular design; mobile routers.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.047259

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.10 No.1, pp.49 - 59

Received: 24 Oct 2009
Accepted: 05 Nov 2010

Published online: 15 Jun 2012 *

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