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A Mobile IP Handoff Protocol for Performance Enhancement of Transport Protocol over Wireless LAN

무선 LAN에서 트랜스포트 프로토콜 성능 향상을 위한 이동 IP 핸드오프 프로토콜

  • Published : 2002.06.01
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Abstract

When a Mobile IP handoff occurs, the packets in flight can be lost because they are tunneled based on out-of-date location information. In this parer, we propose an enhanced handoff protocol that achieves no packet loss during Mobile IP handoff over a wireless LAN. Our handoff protocol predicts the next foreign agent that a mobile host is to visit by using: the information from the data link layer of wireless LAN. After that, when a Mobile IP handoff occult, the current foreign agent forwards the packets destined to a mobile host to the predicted foreign agent which buffers them. This eliminates packet loss and reduces the packet forwarding delay. Our handoff protocol is simulated using the Network Simulator-2 (ns-2) and shows the substantial performance enhancement of TCP with much less overhead up to 6.2 times compared to standard Mobile IP.

본 논문에서는 무선 LAN(Local Area Network) 환경에서 이동 IP를 기반으로 하는 이동 호 스트가 핸드오프를 수행할 때 발생될 수 있는 패킷 손실을 제거하고, 신뢰성 데이터와 멀티미디어 데이터의 특성을 모두 고려한 새로운 핸드오프 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 이동 IP 핸드오프 프로토콜은 데이터 링크 계층의 정보를 이용하여 이동 호스트가 방문한 FA를 예측한 후, 방문할 FA가 패킷을 버퍼링하게 함으로써 패킷 손실을 제거하고 버퍼링 된 패킷의 포워딩 시간을 최소로 한다. ns-2(network simulator-2)를 이용한 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안된 이동 IP 핸드오프 프로토콜을 사용하는 전송 프로토콜은 패킷 손실을 경험하지 않았으며, TCP의 경우 표준 이동 IP를 사용하는 TCP 보다 최대 6.25배 우수한 처리율을 보였다.

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