Consolidation of host-based mobility management protocols with wireless mesh network

Abstract

The number of mobile devices increases exponentially and it becomes the trends and needs of human. Presently, the network infrastructures have the coverage issues in specific areas such as underground facilities. The cost of upgrade causes high budget and it is less profitable based on business and market point of view. Somehow, in coverage areas, the mobile devices still operate by the traditional Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6) for mobility management in inter network scenario. MIPv6 operation mechanisms frequently trigger the signaling overhead problem. Thus, these increase the end-to-end delay and lower the network throughput performance. Having known this issues, we consolidate MIPv6, HMIPv6, FMIPv6 and FHMIPv6 with Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) into one environment. The reason of constructing WMN is because WMN caters rural areas. We identify, analyze, and compare the performance of Host-Based mobility management protocols integrate with WMN in terms of latency, throughput and packet loss ratio. Finally, it is proven that the design and development of FHMIPv6 with WMN performs better as compared to the others Mobile Internet Protocols over the Internet using NS-2 Network Simulation software. Having implemented the FHMIPv6 with WMN, the MAP mechanism allow mobile node does not need to inform the highest hierarchical node upon the handover process. For fast handover mechanism, when the mobile node senses lower signal strength, mobile node advertises to the neighbour network for the need to attach to the new higher signal strength access point. Mobile node informs the new access point of the need to change to the new access point before the process of handover. Thus, this two mechanism can reduce the handover latency and increase the network throughput. In future, in intra network scenario also can implement FHMIPv6 to improve the network performance.