New fast handover mechanism for mobile IPv6 in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

In this paper, a new mechanism is proposed for Mobile IPv6 fast handover in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. The proposed mechanism provides the faster acquisition of new access router's network information than the existing one, which might be advantageous for the low handover latency. In addition, the proposed mechanism might reduce amount of traffic in comparison with the existing one, which might be remarkable when there are many mobile nodes that are now connecting to current access router. Moreover, in the proposed mechanism, a mobile node can know whether it changes access router or access point, which can remove redundant traffic of the existing one.