An analysis of the handover for hierarchical mobile IPv6

Mobility support for mobile networks becoming more important as the mobile Internet becomes popular. The IETF mobile Internet protocol version 6 (MIPv6) enables correspondent nodes (CNs) to send packets directly to a mobile node (MN) using care-of address of the mobile node. To reduce this control signaling, the existing hierarchical scheme built on top of the MIPv6 separates micro-mobility from macro-mobility and exploit mobile node's locally. This paper describes video streaming QoS analysis on the HMIPv6 testbed. Throughput for MN during handoff has been analyzed and the conclusion shows that throughput is dropping during handover process.