A Handover Mechanism in Internetworking with UMTS/WLAN based on HMIPv6

HMIPv6 기반의 UMTS/WLAN 연동 네트워크에서의 핸드오버 방안

  • 정은주 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과) ;
  • 박상준 (숭실대학교 정보미디어연구소) ;
  • 이혜원 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과) ;
  • 김재하 (서울예술대학 디지털아트학부) ;
  • 김병기 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
  • Published : 2005.08.01

Abstract

The research in internetworking between UMTS and WLAN, which is completed with merits and demerits, Is actively progressed to establish global roaming environments. This internetworking is classified into two groups: loosely-coupled and tightly-coupled. h tightly-coupled mechanism demands lots of investment and considerable amountof time to construct, which is directly connoted between UNTS and WLAN via IWU. On the other hand, a tersely-coupled mechanism is more scalable and easier to implement than a tightly-coupled one while it has critical drawbacks of packet loss and blocking of services due to handover delay. To alleviate these drawbacks. this work proposes a handover scheme between UMTS and WLAN, which is based on HMIPv6. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated by the simaulation. The proposed internetworking scheme based on HMIPv6 shows hotter performance than those based on MIPv6.

글로벌 로밍환경 구축을 위해 UMTS(Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems)와 WLAN(Wireless Local Area Network)의 각각의 장단점을 보완하여 통합한 인터네트워킹에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 현재 UMTS와 WLAN의 인터네트워킹 방식은 크게 loosely-coupled 방식과 장기적 접근을 요구하는 tightly-coupled 방식으로 나눌 수 있다. Loosely-coupled 방식은 MIPv6(Mobile IP version 6)의 HA/AR(Home Agent/Access Router)를 사용하여 핸드오버(handover, HO)를 구현하는 방식이다. Loosely-coupled 방식은 IWU(Inter Woriking Unit)을 통해 직접적으로 두 망이 연결되어 있는 tightly-coupled 방식에 비해 독립적 확장이 가능하고 비교적 구현이 쉬우나 핸드오버의 지연으로 인한 패킷 손실과 서비스 끊김 등의 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 개선하기 위하여 HMIPv6(Hierarchical MIPv6)를 사용하여 UMTS와 WLAN의 인터네트지킹에 대한 핸드오버 프로시저를 제안한다. 총 핸드오버 시간을 구하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 HMIPv6를 사용한 방식이 기존의 MIPv6를 사용한 방식보다 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

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