8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Seamless Handover Scheme for Real-Time Multimedia Services in PMIPv6

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694711,
        author={Xin Xu and Yong Cui and Jiangchuan Liu and Wendong Wang and Yalei Tan and Guoyan Liu and Chunhui Zhu},
        title={Seamless Handover Scheme for Real-Time Multimedia Services in PMIPv6},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={pmipv6 real-time multimedia multi-interface seamless handover},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694711}
    }
    
  • Xin Xu
    Yong Cui
    Jiangchuan Liu
    Wendong Wang
    Yalei Tan
    Guoyan Liu
    Chunhui Zhu
    Year: 2013
    Seamless Handover Scheme for Real-Time Multimedia Services in PMIPv6
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694711
Xin Xu1,*, Yong Cui2, Jiangchuan Liu3, Wendong Wang1, Yalei Tan2, Guoyan Liu4, Chunhui Zhu4
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • 2: Tsinghua University
  • 3: School of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University
  • 4: ZTE Corporation
*Contact email: xuxin1988@gmail.com

Abstract

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is one of the most promising technologies for next generation IP network. Fast Handover for PMIPv6 (FPMIPv6) was standardized to improve the handover performance of PMIPv6. However, the long interruption of Lay 2/lay 3 handover in PMIPv6 and FPMIPv6 may be unacceptable for delay-sensitive real-time multimedia applications (e.g. VoIP). To decrease the handover latency, we propose a seamless handover scheme for multi-interface Mobile Node(MN). In this scheme, MN and network units are enhanced to send/forward the packets that destined to handover interface to some other interfaces belonging to MN, which make MN can continuously send/receive packets during handover process. Both theory analysis and Linux-based testbed evaluation have proven that our seamless handover scheme can greatly decrease handover latency and improve the performance of PMIPv6.