An Enhanced Inter-domain Mobile Protocol for IPv6-based Wireless Networks

ABSTRACT

This paper proposes an enhanced inter-domain mobile protocol for IPv6-based wireless networks. In this protocol, the domain-based architecture is proposed and the IPv6 address structure is presented. In this architecture, a wireless network is made up of multiple global domains, and a global domain consists of multiple local domains. Based on this architecture, the inter-domain handover algorithm is proposed. In this algorithm, a mobile node is always identified by its home address during its life time, the handover in the link layer and the one in the network layer are performed in parallel, and a mobile node always receives data from the same border mobile access gateway. Moreover, a mobile node uses the channel information to directly perform the handover in the link layer. Therefore, the handover delay is shortened and the packet loss is lowered. This paper evaluates the performance parameters of this scheme, and the data results show that this scheme lowers the handover delay and packet loss.

Keywords:

• Global domain
• Inter-domain
• IPv6
• Local domain
• Mobile.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank Yuan Yang and Xiaoqing Pan for helping with the simulation works.

Additional information

Funding

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 61202440].

Notes on contributors

Xiaonan Wang

Xiaonan Wang received PhD in computer science and engineering, and finished a post-doctoral research in communication and signal from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She is currently working at Changshu Institute of Technology as a professor. Her research interests are the next-generation network architecture and protocol, and the all-IP communication between IPv6 networks and wireless sensor networks.

E-mail: [email protected]

Huanyan Qian

Huanyan Qian is working in school of computer science and engineering in Nanjing University of Science and Technology as a professor, and his research interests are wireless sensor networks and IPv6 network works.