State-of-the-art multihoming solutions for Android: A quantitative evaluation and experience report

The technical challenges associated with multihoming management in mobile systems and applications have attracted relevant research activities, as demonstrated by the wide related literature of the recent years. However, only very recently some multihoming solutions and techniques have started to be applied in industrially-relevant platforms and cases, often in a limited and very controlled way. This paper has the specific and focused objective of reporting a fresh state-of-the-art overview of the maturity of multihoming solutions for Android and to describe our practical experience of multihoming configuration and evaluation over off-the-shelf Android devices. In particular, we report the experience made while considering the relevant Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) and especially LISPmob support solutions, by i) showing how to efficiently configure LISPmob on non-rooted Android devices; and ii) thoroughly analyzing its supported features towards the abstraction of seamless mobility. In addition, the paper includes a qualitative and quantitative comparison of different multihoming support approaches, as well as original experimental results about the performance of LISPmob over Android terminals.