A Seamless Handover Based MIH-Assisted PMIPV6 in Heterogeneous Network(LTE-WIFI)

We consider the user equipment (UE) velocity as a vital trend in association problem in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), since there is a considerable relation between the velocity and the handover failure (HOF) as well as the probability of unnecessary handovers (ping-pong (PP) events). Several works have been carried out, in the context of standards and scientific research to perform the vertical handover process, such as the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover(MIH) framework and Network Mobility Basic Support Protocol as a proxy mobile internet protocol version 6 (PMIPV6). Therefore, in our paper, we found that interconnecting those two frameworks will be effective in terms of handover decision-making. In addition, to solve the impact of velocity in handover process, we need to carefully and dynamically optimize handover parameters for each UE according to his velocity and coverage area of the access point (AP). To detect any variation in the velocity and evaluate if a transfer is necessary: MIH will study periodically the Allan Variance (AVAR) of received signal strength (RSS) from the serving AP and PMIPv6 will take over the control and execute the handover based on the results obtained by MIH. To evaluate our contribution, it was necessary to configure a heterogeneous network environment (LTE-WIFI) and to integrate MIH PMIPv6 for seamless handover. Simulation results show that it can not only gain relatively accurate velocity, but also reduces the number of PP and HOF.

[1]  Mohammed Abdul Qadeer,et al.  Media Independent Handover (IEEE 802.21): Framework for Next Generation Vertical Handover Protocols , 2011, 2011 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks.

[2]  Jeffrey G. Andrews,et al.  What Will 5G Be? , 2014, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

[3]  Myung-Ki Shin,et al.  Mobility management for all-IP mobile networks: mobile IPv6 vs. proxy mobile IPv6 , 2008, IEEE Wireless Communications.

[4]  D. W. Allan,et al.  Statistics of atomic frequency standards , 1966 .

[5]  Sally I. McClean,et al.  Analysis of coloured noise in received signal strength using the Allan Variance , 2014, 2014 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).

[6]  Victor Fajardo,et al.  IEEE 802.21: Media independent handover: Features, applicability, and realization , 2009, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[7]  Wei Kuang Lai,et al.  Improving handoff performance in wireless overlay networks by switching between two-layer IPv6 and one-layer IPv6 addressing , 2005, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[8]  Xiaoming Fu,et al.  Evaluating the Benefits of Introducing PMIPv6 for Localized Mobility Management , 2008, 2008 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference.

[9]  H. Anthony Chan,et al.  IEEE 802.21-Assisted Cross-Layer Design and PMIPv6 Mobility Management Framework for Next Generation Wireless Networks , 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications.

[10]  P. Lesage,et al.  Characterization of Frequency Stability: Analysis of the Modified Allan Variance and Properties of Its Estimate , 1984, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

[11]  Marco Gramaglia,et al.  Network-based Localized IP mobility Management: Proxy Mobile IPv6 and Current Trends in Standardization , 2010, J. Wirel. Mob. Networks Ubiquitous Comput. Dependable Appl..

[12]  Gandeva B. Satrya,et al.  Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.21 MIH as a Function of Vertical Handover Using PMIPv6 and F-HMIPv6 , 2015, ICEC '15.

[13]  Rosli Salleh,et al.  A Survey on Proxy Mobile IPv6 Handover , 2016, IEEE Systems Journal.

[14]  Dong Ren,et al.  A forward fast media independent handover control scheme for Proxy Mobile IPv6 (FFMIH-PMIPv6) over heterogeneous wireless mobile network , 2017, Telecommun. Syst..