Combined Host Identity Protocol and Cell Switching for Efficient Routing

Abstract

Network Mobility (NEMO) is concerned with managing the mobility of an entire network, which changes, as a unit, its point of attachment to the Internet and thus its reachability in the topology. The mobile network includes one or more mobile routers (MRS) which connect it to the global Internet. A mobile network is assumed to be a leaf network, i.e. it will not carry transit traffic. In this paper, the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) is used to implement the NEMO network to provide seamless mobility with low packet overhead. Also, the NEMO Cell Switching (NCS)technique is implemented in MR devices to provide more efficient route management. Based on the above, this paper proposes the use of the HIPNCS technique for NEMO networks to provide low latency and low packet loss services as well as the support for efficient route decision mechanisms. The implementation of the proposed HIPNCS network is achieved using the OMNeT++ simulator and the INET/HIPSim++ package.