Performance Analysis of a Forwarding Scheme for Handoff in HAWAII

  • Authors:
  • Chris Blondia;Olga Casals;Llorenç Cerdà;Gert Willems

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • NETWORKING '02 Proceedings of the Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; and Mobile and Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Demand for mobile network access is having a huge increase nowadays. Cellular networks are being deployed to cope with a high number of users. Several IP micro-mobility protocols have been proposed to handle routing and handoffs inside cellular networks. In this paper the HAWAII micro-mobility protocol is analyzed by means of an analytical model. A detailed description of the handoff procedure is given and illustrated by means of traces obtained from simulation. Several of the system details are taken into account in the analytical model. This allows us to investigate the influence of various system parameters (e.g. cell overlap area, beacon latency, forwarding buffer capacity, etc.) on the system performance for constant bit rate (UDP) traffic. The results are validated by means of simulation results obtained with the network simulator (ns).