Distributed handover control in localized mobile LISP networks

The Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) has been made as an identifier-locator separation scheme for scalable Internet routing. The identifier-locator separation is also helpful for mobility support. The issue of mobility is a serious challenge in LISP. However, the existing LISP-based handover schemes tend to induce larger handover latency and packet loss. To overcome this problem, we propose a network-based distributed handover control scheme, named LISP-DHC. In the proposed LISP-DHC scheme every access router has the functionality of LISP tunnel router. From numerical results, it is shown that the proposed scheme can give better performance than the existing LISP-based schemes in terms of handover latency.