SEMO6 - a multihoming-based seamless mobility management framework

Mobility protocols are designed to support handover between different wireless networks. Many of them suffer problems such as high handover latency, high packet overhead, high packet loss during handoff, lack of application transparency, etc. To remove these problems, we proposed a network layer based mobility protocol framework, SEamless MObility using shim6 (SEMO6), for host mobility. It is based on using the SHIM6 protocol and provides multihoming, mobility and application transparency. The goal of this paper is to present the system framework, analyze signalling cost, and evaluate the performance of this mobility management protocol.