Specification and Performance Evaluation of a Micromobility Protocol Based on Multicast Transmission

With the aim of improving the performance of Mobile IPv4, there have been developed different proposals based on the concep of micromobility. This paper introduces a movel micromobility system based on multicast transmission. We propose different handover schemas for this system and, for each of them, we have develop a simple analytical model which allows to evaluate the performance in terms of packet-loss.