4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities

Research Article

On the use of SHIM6 for Mobility Support in IMS Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3226,
        author={John Ronan and Sasitharan Balasubramaniam and Adnan K. Kiani and Wenbing Yao},
        title={On the use of SHIM6 for Mobility Support in IMS Networks},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks \& Communities},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Mobility MIPv6 SHIM6 IMS SIP.},
        doi={10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3226}
    }
    
  • John Ronan
    Sasitharan Balasubramaniam
    Adnan K. Kiani
    Wenbing Yao
    Year: 2010
    On the use of SHIM6 for Mobility Support in IMS Networks
    TRIDENTCOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3226
John Ronan1,*, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam1,*, Adnan K. Kiani2,*, Wenbing Yao2,*
  • 1: Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Carriganore Waterford, Ireland
  • 2: School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom
*Contact email: jronan@tssg.org, sasib@tssg.org, Adnan.Kiani@brunel.ac.uk, Wenbing.Yao@brunel.ac.uk

Abstract

The future of network communications is moving towards deployment of an all-IP core network. This has given rise to many devices hitting the market equipped with multiple network interfaces. However, in order to really benefit from such a heterogeneous network environment, applications must experience minimum disruption as they roam from one network to another, which requires seamless mobility support. Although, some mobility proposals have emerged (Mobile IPv6, and its extensions), none of them give satisfactory performance in terms of handover between different networks. In addition, they require infrastructural changes to the network and give poor performance in case of a failure. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to support mobility through a multi homing SHIM6 layer. The results show that our proposed mechanism outperforms Route Optimized Mobile IPv6.