6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

An Efficient Fast Handoff Scheme with Network Mobility in Heterogeneous Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158280,
        author={Baojiang Wu},
        title={An Efficient Fast Handoff Scheme with Network Mobility in Heterogeneous Networks},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={network mobility fast handoff markov chain multi-mobile router heterogeneous networks},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158280}
    }
    
  • Baojiang Wu
    Year: 2012
    An Efficient Fast Handoff Scheme with Network Mobility in Heterogeneous Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158280
Baojiang Wu1,*
  • 1: School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R.China.
*Contact email: dabao9_9@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract

As many access technologies develop, more and more heterogeneous wireless networks appear around us. In this case, when whole mobile networks move from the visiting network to another, the handoff attracts the attentions especially. The exited handoff methods with network mobility merely extended the scheme of handoff in MIPv6 or integrated the exited methods into the uniform scheme but it can not make the good effect to really and truly solve the fast and smooth (packet lossless) handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks. In this paper, the fast handoff scheme is given and it provides Multi-Mobile Router (MMR) with a vicinage table to keep information about their vicinages access router. Using this method, it performs the Fast Handoff with network mobility effectively in heterogeneous wireless networks. In addition, we introduce the new entity TCS (temporary control server) to manage MMR procedure in order to complete fast handoff and reduce the power consumption of MMR. By analysis and simulations, we demonstrate that fast handoff scheme has the better performance than Basic NEMO.