Summary: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput. 2005; 5:825­845
Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/wcm.340
Signaling cost and performance of SIGMA: A seamless
handover scheme for data networks
Shaojian Fu1
*,y
, Mohammed Atiquzzaman1
, Liran Ma1
and Yong-Jin Lee2
1
Telecommunications and Networks Research Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK 73019-6151, U.S.A.
2
Department of Technology Education, Korea National University of Education, San 7-1, Darakri, Chongwon-
Gun, Chungbuk, 363-791, Korea
Summary
Mobile IP has been developed to handle mobility of Internet hosts at the network layer. Mobile IP (MIP), however,
suffers from a number of drawbacks such as requirement of infrastructure change, high handover latency, high
packet loss rate, and conflict with network security solutions. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the

Source: Atiquzzaman, Mohammed - School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences