A Survey of the Research on IP Micro-Mobility Handoff Management
IP微移动的切换管理

IP micro-mobility is one of the mobility management methods that can improve the communication quality during movement of mobile nodes. Handoff management is its key technology. In this paper,a comprehensive survey on IP micro-mobility handoff management is given. A new classification of handoff management,from the viewpoint of relationship and interaction between network-level handoff and data-link-level handoff,is introduced. Further,the characteristics and problems of some representative IP micro-mobility handoff protocols are analyzed in detail,and the comparison results are given also. Finally,future research directions of IP micro-mobility handoff management are discussed.