Performance Evaluation of a Handover Scheme for Fast Moving Objects in Hierarchical Mobile Networks

Reducing the handover latency has been one of the most critical research issues in Mobile IPv6. The research includes the fast handover, the hierarchical handover, and variations of them. This paper proposes a variation of the hierarchical handover and develops analytical models to compare the performance of the proposed scheme with that used in the hierarchical mobile networks. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed scheme is very effective for applications like Telematics where mobile nodes move fast. The paper also gives readers the threshold values with which they can select an optimal handover scheme for the given applications.