Design and Performance Evaluation of a obility Management Protocol for Wireless

The introduction of ATM in wireless CPN environments (WATM) necessitates the design of mobility signaling protocols, since the existing versions of B-ISDN signaling do not support terminal mobility. These protocols can be deployed as overlay solutions that have little or no impact on existing infrastructures (switches, signaling software, etc.). In this paper, we present a WATM architecture and discuss the design of a Mobility Management and Control protocol (MMC). After briefly presenting what procedures the protocol specifies for the forward handover scenario we provide simulation results related to the performance of the system.