Dynamic interface/network selection mechanism approach for multi-homed wireless nodes

Nowadays, current Mobile/Fixed devices are often equipped with several interfaces of different access technologies; wire, wireless and even cellular. Generally, users are looking to keep the communication going while they are on the move, anywhere and anytime. All together, users are looking to keep the communication going with their destination with minimum cost and minimum delay, even when their destinations are moving as well. In order to achieve this, an interface/network selection mechanism should be defined to the multi-homed hosts, which allows the host to dynamically select the right interface at the right time, while the destination is on the move. To this end, this paper introduces a dynamic interface/network selection mechanism, which offers the user the ability to keep on going communication with its destination, while the destination is on the move from one point to another with different speeds. The named mechanism reduces the number of retransmitted packets and keeps the communication going with minimum end-to-end delay. The named mechanism improves the throughput of generating packets during the simulation time as compared with a multi-homed host without it.