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Advanced Mobility Handover for Mobile IPv6
Based Wireless Networks
Ali Safa Sadiq,1 Norsheila Binti Fisal,2 Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor,3 and Jaime Lloret4
1
Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak,
Gambang, 26300 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
2
UTM MIMOS CoE in Telecommunication Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM),
81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
3
Faculty of Engineering, University of Koya, Daniel Miterrand Boulevard, Koya KOY45, Kurdistan, Iraq
4
Instituto de Investigacion para la Gestion Integrada de Zonas Costeras, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Correspondence should be addressed to Norsheila Binti Fisal; sheila@fke.utm.my
Received 5 August 2014; Accepted 17 November 2014; Published 31 December 2014
Academic Editor: Weifeng Sun
Copyright 2014 Ali Safa Sadiq et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We propose an Advanced Mobility Handover scheme (AMH) in this paper for seamless mobility in MIPv6-based wireless networks.
In the proposed scheme, the mobile node utilizes a unique home IPv6 address developed to maintain communication with other
corresponding nodes without a care-of-address during the roaming process. The IPv6 address for each MN during the first round of
AMH process is uniquely identified by HA using the developed MN-ID field as a global permanent, which is identifying uniquely the
IPv6 address of MN. Moreover, a temporary MN-ID is generated by access point each time an MN is associated with a particular
AP and temporarily saved in a developed table inside the AP. When employing the AMH scheme, the handover process in the
network layer is performed prior to its default time. That is, the mobility handover process in the network layer is tackled by a
trigger developed AMH message to the next access point. Thus, a mobile node keeps communicating with the current access point
while the network layer handover is executed by the next access point. The mathematical analyses and simulation results show that
the proposed scheme performs better as compared with the existing approaches.
1. Introduction
Wireless networks are loomed as a promising technology that
can provide seamless access to network services. The past
decade has witnessed a rapid increase of network services in
the Internet at any time and any place. In mobile IP networks,
this sharp increase of network services requires seamless
mobility and low delay during mobile nodes (MN) movement. This can be achieved by a seamless mobility handover
management scheme with low signalling cost. Moreover, the
quality-of-service (QoS) of ongoing network applications is
glaringly affected by mobility handover processes, due to high
delay and packet loss. Besides, the support of an efficient
mobility management is considered as a one of the very
important issues for the future generation of wireless and
mobile networks services [13].
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configured with different global routing prefixes. Therefore,
the MN must obtain a temporary new IPv6 address instead
of its home address (an IPv6 address assigned by HA of MN
which is started with the home subnet prefix) of HA. During
the time MN is connected to its HA, all the traffic of packets
are addressed to its configured home address. Afterwards, all
the packets that were sent by CNs are routed to the MNs HA
employing the typical Internet routing mechanisms [9].
On the other hand, when an MN is connected to some
foreign networks, it utilizes one or more of care-of-addresses
(CoA), that is, depending on the number of visited foreign
networks. The assigned CoA is an IPv6 address with a subnet
prefix indicating the visited foreign network. By the time
MN is active with a particular foreign network, the packets
are addressed with the obtained CoA to be reachable to the
MN. Moreover, in some cases, MN can accept packets from
a number of CoAs, for instance, when it is roaming but still
accessible at the previous network.
In MIPv6, there are some issues that still need to be
addressed regarding mobility handover process. When MN
performs a fast movement, the signal quality of the current
access point (AP) can go down rapidly. Thus, MN is not able
to connect for a long period with the current AR (CAR),
for instance, when MN does not have sufficient time to send
handover signals which are responsible for new IP address
registration process. Thus, it can lead to mobility handover
failure. In other words, the mobility handover process, which
is performed by MN to obtain a new CoA from visited
network, in addition to the registration processes with HA is
negatively affected by inefficient mobility handover process.
Consequently it can degrade the QoS of ongoing applications
due to high overall handover delay.
In the light of discussions given above, the handover
delay is one of the hot issues that are normally experienced
within MIPv6 and other well known mobility management
protocols [5]. Therefore, it is important to take into consideration this aspect as a way to improve the network
layer handover processes. Moreover, the handover delay of
several seconds is unacceptable for most of time-sensitive
and lost-sensitive applications (real-time applications) [10].
Thus, many mobility handover schemes have been proposed.
In this regards, several approaches have been proposed as a
way to reduce the handover latency that is experienced within
MIPv6 due to IPv6 address configuration and registration
processes.
The remainder of the paper is as follows. Section 2
provides the related literature in mobility handover process
of network layer and mobility management approaches, and
Section 3 presents the detailed design of proposed AMH
scheme, whereas Section 4 illustrates the performance evaluation of proposed AMH scheme followed by the conclusion
in Section 5.
2. Related Works
One of the essential issues in wireless communications is
the handover delay. Hence, many studies have tried to overcome with appropriate solution to decrease the associated
(1)
(2)
(3)
4
was introduced as a way to cope with the mobility management aspects in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs),
in order to maintain the wireless connection with roadside
network service nodes during vehicular movement. The
authors in [29] are designed a multiaccess wireless network architecture employing the Wi-Fi (WLANs), vehicular,
worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX),
and long-term evolution 4G (LTE) technologies, supporting a
continuous and wireless connection for the ongoing vehicular
applications. This method was devised for the needs of each
application class, such as throughput, delay, and packet loss.
The status of the current active wireless connection was
considered in order to tackle the division of the mobility
flow. Furthermore, the authors elaborated the handover
decision using three elements that are based on proxy MIPv6
(PMIPv6), the local mobility anchor (LMA), the mobility
access gateway (MAG), and MN.
However, at best, by using the SFMMA scheme MN
still asking information from the MAG where the network
interface is connected; inquires about network status and the
home network prefixes (HNP). Throughout these amounts of
information, MN can indicate whether the interface is still
active or not; otherwise it does not know to whom it needs to
route the packets and what are the prefixes that can be used
to send its packets. Furthermore, the triggering process of
mobility handover decision can be performed by many sides
as it was stated in the proposed network architecture, which
are MN, LMA, and MAG. These kinds of decisions can lead
MN to experience unnecessary handovers [30]. The reason is
that when a rapid changing occurrs with MNs position due to
roaming process, many mobility aspects are changeable that
in such circumstances (high speed) it takes time in updating
the parameters with both LMA and MAGs. Therefore, it could
be more difficult to include all MNs, LMAs, and MAGs in
mobility handover decision making processes that lead to
unstable handover decision. Besides, this can result in an
increase in the signaling costs and overheads of the entire
handover processes.
A host-based localized mobility management (LMM)
scheme was proposed by Cho et al. [5]. The developed scheme
supported multiple care of addresses and fast handover
mechanism. The handover processes within LMM scheme are
controlled using a developed localized mobility client (LMC)
server. The connection was established by creating a tunnel
by LMC as a way to process the location registration. A BU
message was sent using tunnel in addition to handle the MN
communication over this tunnel. After the link is established
with candidate network, the CoA is formed to be assigned for
MN.
However, the proposed scheme still offers complexity in
network handover signaling process. This due to the fact that
introducing localized mobility management clients, servers,
and Tunnel Gateways (TG); with any failure of one of them
it degrades the whole system performance. Moreover, it can
be noted that the MN still engages with many of control
signals as it was demonstrated in [5]. In other words, the
tunnel establishment trigger and the BU messages are still
visible within MNs side, which keeps the overheads over MN
during mobility handover processes. Furthermore, MNs still
2001:1:1:2::/64
AR2
2001:1:2:1::/64
AR1
2001:1:1:1::/64
AP1
2001:1:1:1:1::/80
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80
2002:1:1:2::/64
2001:1:1:2::/64
AP2
2001:1:1:1:2::/80
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80
AP3
2001:1:2:1:1::/80
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80
AR3
2002:1:1:1::/64
AP4
2001:1:2:1:2::/80
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80
AP5
2002:1:1:1:1::/80
AP6
2002:1:1:1:2::/80
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80
MN movement
MN2number
),
2(GRP )
(4)
Body information
Default information + MN IPv6 address + (01)
Default information + MN IPv6 address + (10)
Default information + MN IPv6 address + (11)
AMH
Reserve memory space, establish MN-IDtemp , and execute AMH1
Reserve memory space, establish MN-IDtemp , and execute AMH2
Reserve memory space, establish MN-IDtemp , and execute AMH3
AP-ID
i bits
64 bits
MN-ID
64i bits
HA (local MN table)
IPv6 address of MN
IPv6 address of AR
IPv6 address of MN
MN-ID
IPv6 address of AP
Neighbor AP IPv6
and MAC address
IPv6 address of MN
MN-IDtemp
Figure 2: The format of the proposed unique IPv6 address and data
structure as a table form saving in each of HA, AR, and AP in the
proposed AMH scheme.
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2
02312
Frame
control
Duration
Address
1 (DA)
SA
BSSID
Sequence
control
Frame
body
FCS
MAC header
(a) Standard management frame format
Frame body 02312
Octets:
Frame
control
Duration
Address
1 (DA)
SA
BSSID
Sequence
control
MAC header
16
MN
AMH
IPv6 message FCS
address
Bits: 2
Figure 3: The management frame format and modified association request frame.
Table 2: Data updating in each of AP and AR after AMH1 message.
AP2 entry table after T2
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80 + MN-IDtemp (1)
AP1
AR
T1
Packets flow
AMH1
T3
Packets flow
AP2
MN
Packets flow
AMH1
T2
Packets flow
CN
T1
Home Agent
Packets flow
AP3
AR1
Packets flow
AMH2
T3
AR2
Packets flow
AP2
Packets flow
AMH2
AMH2
AMH2
Packets flow
Packets flow
Packets flow
MN
Packets flow
T2
Figure 5: AMH2 scheme within different subnets and the same global routing prefix.
Table 3: Data updating in each of AP, AR, HA, and CN after AMH2 message.
AP3 entry table after T2
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80 + MN-IDtemp (1)
CN
T1
T3
Home Agent
Packets flow
AR3
AP5
Packets flow
AMH3
AMH3
Packets flow
Packets flow
AR2
AP4
Packets flow
MN
Packets flow
T2
AMH3
AMH3
Packets flow
Packets flow
Figure 6: AMH3 scheme within different subnets and different global routing prefixes.
Table 4: Data updating in each of AP and AR with different global routing prefix, HA, and CN after AMH3 message.
AP5 entry table after T2
2001:1:1:1:1::1/80 + MN-IDtemp (1)
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4. Performance Evaluation
4.1. The Numerical Model for AMH. In order to prove the
efficiency of the AMH scheme, a numerical model has been
created to show the delay time and the cost during handover
procedure. In general the mobility handover delay time,
delay , of MN includes the handover detection, handover
decision, and handover execution delay time. The delay can
be extracted as in the following form:
delay = detection + decision + execution ,
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
Inner = Detection .
(10)
In contrast, the signaling cost between different subnets and global routing prefix Outer contains the mobility
detection cost Detection , the registration cost RegOuter between
subnets, and the cost of the tunnel between NARs and CARs
Tunnel as was illustrated in formula (11). In the proposed
AMH scheme, the MN was sending AMH2 and AMH3
employing association request frame to the next AP, and the
RegOuter has been dealt with by NAP instead of MN. Therefore,
the RegOuter was omitted from the MN side in the outer
domain as well. Formula (12) shows the calculations of the
Outer in AMH scheme. Consider
Outer = Detection + RegOuter + Tannel ,
(11)
(12)
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Table 5: The traffic model for HTTP application.
Parameters
icmpv6
IPv6 error handling
AMH support
IPv6
Neighbour discovery
IP tunneling
Image properties
Value
Exponentially distributed with
mean 60 seconds
1000 bytes of text with 5 medium
images
Size randomly picked with a
uniform distribution on [500, 2000]
bytes
Parameters
Value
File transfer
File size
Value
Exponentially distributed with
mean 0.65 seconds
Exponentially distributed with
mean 0.352 seconds
1
64 kbps
Best effort (high priority)
0.02 second
25 frames/sec
352 288 pixels
177.4 (low motion) to
709.6 kbps (high motion)
24
Best effort (high priority)
12
Access point
Notification board
Mobility
Interface table
Relay unit
NeighborAPandMNid tempTable
#
eth[sizeof(ethg)]
wlan[numRadios]
(a) The modified architecture of AP with a list of neighbour AP and MNIDtemp table
Router 6
Home agent 6
Mobility
Mobility
Notification board
Notification board
Routing table 6
Routing table 6
Network layer
Network layer
#
#
#
#
Interface table wlan[numRadios] eth[sizeof(ethg)] ppp[sizeof(pppg)] ext[numExtInterfaces]
#
#
#
#
Interface table wlan[numRadios] eth[sizeof(ethg)] ppp[sizeof(pppg)] ext[numExtInterfaces]
Figure 8: Architecture design of link and network layers of AP, AR, and HA with modified AMH tables.
+ ,
0
(13)
13
Value
700 s
2300 1300 m
Linear and rectangle
models
50 nodes
118 m/s
14 dbm
300 m
500 m
Maximum 800
packet/second
1000 byte
11 Mbps
IEEE 802.11b
14
AR2
AP1
Subnet 3
AP3
AP4
Subnet 2
AP5
Subnet 5
AR1
AR3
AR5
AP9
Subnet 1
AP6
AP2
AP8
AP7
Subnet 4
AR4
Internet
Application order:
Http
Ftp
VoIP
Video
Server (CN)
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Handover delay with FTP application (s)
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
100
200
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
100
200
300
400
500
Simulation time (s)
600
700
5
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
100
200
300
400
500
Simulation time (s)
600
700
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
(c) Average handover delay with voice application
1
Handover signalling overhead cost
3.5
The means of handover delay
700
600
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
300
400
500
Simulation time (s)
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
0
HTTP
FTP
Voice
Video
10
20
30
40
MN speed (km/h)
50
AMH
IF-HMIPv6
SFMMA
AMH
IF-HMIPv6
SFMMA
(e) The means of handover delay for HTTP, FTP, voice, and video
applications using ANOVA single factor
60
100
0.45
90
0.4
80
0.35
70
Packet loss
16
0.3
0.25
0.2
60
50
40
0.15
30
0.1
20
0.05
10
100
200
300
400
500
Simulation time (s)
600
700
0
10
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
MN speed (km/h)
50
55
60
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
100
90
80
Packet loss
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
10
15
20
25
30
35
Number of MNs
40
45
50
IF-HMIPv6
AMH
SFMMA
(i) Impact of MNs number on packet loss
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and SFMMA methods during simulation time. Normally,
during handover process a location update procedure is
performed which consists of several costs such as the binding
update cost generated due to MNs mobility and the periodic
binding refresh cost generated due to the expiration of the
binding lifetime. By increasing the movement speed, the time
required to process the aforementioned mobility handover
process will be increased which subsequently increases the
total signals overhead. For this reason, the impact of MNs
speed on mobility handover signaling overhead is investigated in this section.
It can be observed from the results presented in
Figure 10(f) the behaviour of signaling cost of performed
handovers which was increasing similarly to MNs speed.
Obviously, the proposed AMH scheme performed the best
by saving the cost of signals which are associated with
handover process in low average cost by the time the MN
increases the movement speed compared with the state of
the art. Regrettably, the average handover signaling overhead
cost is the highest utilizing IF-HMIPv6 method which is
increasing similar to the speed. In contrast, it can be observed
that SFMMA method performed better than IF-HMIPv6 by
obtaining lower signaling overhead cost.
The reason behind this is that the time the MN requires to
perform more signals with other network components (MAP,
MAG, and LMA) leads to establish a lifetime parameter for
every particular signal; when times expires, the signal must
be resent once again. In other words, with every handover
signal performed there is a lifetime associated whereby
decreasing this time as a way to avoid higher delay results
in rising signal refreshment costs. Therefore, the proposed
AMH scheme significantly decreased the number of signals
which are triggered by the MN side to be combined into
one developed AMH message. To this end, this dictated the
tremendous improvement in decreasing the total handover
signaling overhead cost using proposed AMH scheme.
On the other hand, the cost of binding update signal
messages is collected employing the AMH scheme, IFHMIPv6, and SFMMA methods as presented in Figure 10(g).
Specificity, the cost of a BU signal message is calculated
during simulation time at the time handovers which are
performed by MN with APs in the simulated area. It is
obvious that by the time handovers started after 100 sec of
simulation time the BU cost started increasing slightly using
the AMH scheme in contrast to the state of the art which
sharply increased. As mentioned earlier in this section, when
the MN is engaged with the BU signal message process
it takes on the responsibility of the BU refreshing process
which was performed due to the expiration of the binding
lifetime. Hence, the obtained BU cost using IF-HMIPv6 is the
highest followed by SFMMA method which utilizes media
independent handover function (MIHF).
The implementation of MIHF of IEEE 802.21 standard
in SFMMA method provides more improvement in the
handover process compared with IF-HMIPv6 which applies
the concept of HMIPv6 protocol. Although MIHF defines
three different services, media independent event service
(MIES), media independent command service (MICS), and
media independent information service (MIIS), the MN
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is still associated with the network link changing process
when the handover is triggered by the MN itself in SFMMA
method. In contrast, the proposed AMH scheme omitted
any interaction between the MN and any of the network
components, except triggering the development of the AMH
message which is embedded into the association request
frame from the MN to selected APs.
4.3.3. Packet Loss. The packet loss performance metric is
investigated and evaluated in this section as a way of identifying the level of improvement that was achieved by decreasing
the disconnect time due to the handover process employing
the proposed AMH scheme. In order to achieve an accurate
packet loss metric evaluation, the impact of MNs speed and
its number are collected and presented in Figures 10(h) and
10(i), respectively. Figure 10(h) presents the packet loss by
the time the MN increases its speed (km/h). It is obvious
from the graph of packet losss behaviour that at the initial
MNs speed, the packet loss obtained by operating the AMH
scheme is equal to zero, and almost the same for both IFHMIPv6 and SFMMA methods with low loss ratio. In this
regard, it can be said that the MN with low speed has adequate
time to establish the new connection with selected APs and
to redirect the traffic flow of the MN to NAP. Therefore, the
packet loss experienced a delay at 12 km/h which is the time
required to send BU to the HA which is already eliminated
in the proposed AMH scheme by elaborating the developed
AMH message. Thus, the AMH scheme initially obtained
zero packet loss compared to the state of the art.
As the speed increases, the packet loss ratio increased
up to a maximum at 60 km/h speed using IF-HMIPv6 followed by SFMMA method compared to the proposed AMH
scheme. AMH performed the best by efficiently decreasing
the packet loss ratio. The important point to note here is
that the time which is available to complete the processes of
obtaining CoA, registration, and BU procedures was shorter
as the MNs speed increases. Subsequently, a greater packet
loss ratio was experienced as the MN speed was increasing.
An additional weakness associated with increasing MNs
speed is that the default nature of APs channel accessibility
decreases in WLANs based on IEEE 802.11b due to contention
which occurs as speed increases. Accordingly, it can be
possible that the MN does not obtain access over the wireless
channel of the AP immediately after sending the association
request frame; if not, it will be delayed. Regrettably, at higher
speeds, wireless access contention increases, resulting in
packet loss. In spite of the aforementioned high speed consequences, the AMH scheme could achieve lower packet loss
ratio, compared to the state of the art, by keeping the value of
packet loss at acceptable levels with low handover delay.
On the other hand, Figure 10(i) depicts the packet loss
observed for a different number of MNs at a constant speed
of 5 meters per second. When the handover is performed at
a constant, low speed, the MN has sufficient time to execute
CoA obtaining and registration processes. This implies that
packet loss arises only during the time that the sending BU
procedure to the HA is processed. Therefore, proportionally,
when the number of MNs increases, packet loss increases
due to the time delay experienced by the BU packet in order
6. Conclusion
In this paper, we proposed an advanced mobility handover
scheme to perform the network layer handover prior to its
normal time (before the handover in link layer has been
processed). These AMH schemes processes were carried out
by the next AP (NAP) after the MN triggers the developed
AMH message that was embedded with associationreq frame
during the association process with NAP. Thus, the handover
in the network layer level was performed by NAP on behalf
of the MN while it was still communicating with the current
AP. Moreover, a unique IPv6 address was developed in this
paper as a way to keep the IPv6 address of the MNs during the
simulated scenarios unchanged. In other words, during the
time the MNs were visiting other wireless network providers
with different subnets or different global routing prefixes, the
MNs were not required to obtain a CoA from the visited
networks. This was achieved by creating three main fields
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Table 10: Comparison Between Main Mobility Management Protocols and Proposed AMH Scheme.
Parameters
Complexity
Handover Delay
Scalability
Packet Loss
Mobility
Signalling Overhead
Operating Layer
Mobility scope
Handover Management
Location Management
Required Infrastructure
Modification on MN
Route Optimization
Movement Detection
MIPv6
Medium
High
Medium
High
Host-Based
High
Network Layer
Global
Yes (limited)
Yes
HA
Yes
Yes
Required
HMIPv6
High
High
Medium
Medium
Host-Based
Medium
Network Layer
Local
Yes
Yes
HA, MAP
Yes
Yes
Required
in IPv6 address format, which are global routing prefix, APID, and MN-ID fields. Furthermore, three tables identified
as neighbour AP and MN-IDtemp tables in APs, MN routing
table in ARs, and Local MN table in HAs were cached.
Employing these tables, routing and MNs IPv6 address
registration processes became more dynamic in updating
the ARs IPv6 address during MN roaming. Therefore,
numerical analysis has proven that by using the proposed
AMH scheme, many of the costs and time delays that were
normally associated to the handover process have been
suppressed. Extensive and fair simulation results show that,
compared to the other proposed methods IF-HMIPv6 and
SFMMA, our AMH scheme performed better in terms of total
and average handover latency with (HTTP, FTP, voice, and
video) applications. Moreover, in terms of handover signaling
overhead cost, binding update signal cost, and the impact of
MNs speed in addition to the number on packet loss metric
our AMH scheme performed the best. We are currently
working on development of a prediction algorithm to reduce
the handover latency in heterogeneous wireless networks.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
regarding the publication of this paper.
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