Context-Aware Middleware for Reliable Multi-hop Multi-path Connectivity
SEUS '08 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 10.2 international workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
Mobility-aware management of internet connectivity in always best served wireless scenarios
Mobile Networks and Applications
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
A performance evaluation of IPv6-based network mobility management
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Performance analysis of network mobility protocols in IP networks
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Solving pinball routing, race condition and loop formation issues in nested mobile networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Proportional bandwidth adjustment using BER ratios, in a two-tier hierarchical NEMO system
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
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The multihop cellular network architecture has been actively studied due to its capability to significantly increase cellular system capacity and coverage, and at the same time greatly reduce the transmission range of mobile nodes. The majority of the literature on MCN, however, is based on discussions from the physical or link layer point of view. In this article we look at the logical MCN architecture from the IP layer aspect. We believe that this aspect is critical to general deployment of Internet applications on the MCN because IP is the dominant supporting protocol for such applications. We introduce a new architecture based on the integration of nested network mobility (nested NEMO), which is a pure IP layer architecture, and MCN. We name the resulting architecture nested NEMO on MCN. We illustrate how nested NEMO on MCN operates and how it realizes the advantages provided by MCN on the IP layer. We also unveil a potential problem specific to the nested NEMO on MCN architecture: recursive IP fragmentation. A simple technique to overcome this problem is proposed.