On design and performance evaluation of an integrated SIP and HCoP-B architecture for nested network mobility

This paper proposes a fully-integrated SIP + HCoP-B architecture to provide efficient mobility management of the nested mobile network. It achieves the following merits, which are rare in the literature. First, it reduces network deployment costs by only equipping an integrated SIP mobile server. Second, it supports both SIP-based and non-SIP-based applications. Third, by adopting the analytical model proposed in Mohanty and Akyildiz (2007) [19], mathematical analyses are provided to investigate six performance metrics of SIP + HCoP-B and the other four well-known SIP's over NEMO schemes over the error-prone wireless link. Finally, it is shown that SIP + HCoP-B outperforms these four traditional schemes through intensive simulations.

► SIP + HCoP-B provides efficient mobility management of the nested mobile network. ► It reduces network deployment costs by equipping an integrated SIP mobile server. ► Six performance metrics of five SIP over NEMO schemes with RLP are investigated. ► It outperforms four traditional schemes with respect to four NEMO parameters. ► Rare SIP over NEMO schemes owns merits of SIP + HCoP-B altogether.