In this paper, we evaluate a low latency handoff protocol for MIPv4, the post-registration handoff method. This mechanism proposed by the IETF tries to improve the performance of hierarchical mobile IP by decreasing the handoff latency. We give a detailed description of the protocol behavior by means of an ns simulation and propose a simple queuing model to study the influence of various parameters on the protocol performance.
['O. Casals', 'Ll. Cerda', 'G. Willems', 'Chris Blondia', 'N. Van den Wijngaert']
Performance evaluation of the post-registration method, a low latency handoff in MIPv4