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Mobile IPv6 handoff by Explicit Multicast
draft-ezaki-smoothhandoff-xcast6-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Yutaka Ezaki , Yuji Imai
Last updated 2002-06-21
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Abstract

A handover process on Mobile IPv6 requires a time period referred as handoff latency. This latency is not acceptable to support real-time application. We propose a new smooth handoff method using the Explicit Multicast (xcast) technique. On the wired section, control/user packets are multicasted by Xcast scheme to the Base Stations where Mobile Node (MN) can receive, and then packets are passed to the air-link activated between a BS and the MN. This procedure provides mobility in heterogeneous media environment because this handoff mechanism is basically able to implemented without additional control or intelligence of neither intermediate routers.

Authors

Yutaka Ezaki
Yuji Imai

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