SIP BASED MOBILITY

ARCHITECTURE FOR NEXT

GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORK

Nilanjan Banerjee and Sajal K. Das

CREWMAN, University of Texas at Arlington
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington

 Idowu O. Samuel - samido@student.ltu.se

INTRODUCTION
 Application-level protocol abstraction is required to support seamless
mobility in next generation heterogeneous wireless networks. However,
the handoff procedure with SIP suffers from undesirable delay and
hence packet loss  which is detrimental to applications such as VoIP
or streaming video.

AIM
 Proposal of SIP based architecture that supports soft handoff for IP
centric wireless networks, alleviating the problem of packet loss.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
 Seamless service is usually achieved by supporting handoff, which is a
process of changing parameters associated with the current
connection. (e.g. source / destination Address)
 SIP supports terminal mobility by sending a re-INVITE message to the
CH from the MH.
 The handoff delay: time required by the re-INVITE message to reach
the CH from the MH.
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
 Two things needed to be done before the INVITE message could be
transported :
  Detection of the new network by the MH.
  The MH needs to acquire an IP address by a procedure
specific to the access network.

PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE:
  MH is equipped to interface through different access technologies and
can receive / transmit packets via more than one interfaces at same
time.
 Each MH is SIP-enabled and SIP takes the responsibility of session
setup and the provisioning of seamless mobility.
  When an MH moves to a different network, acquiring a new IP
address, its SIP client initiates a handoff procedure by sending a re-
INVITE message with updated SDP parameters to the CH as well as to
the home network’s registrar service.
 Handoff delay associated with time required by the re-INVITE
message to reach the CH from the MH.    SOFT HANDOFF
SOFT HANDOFF : illustration
SOFT HANDOFFS (“make before
break”): both existing and new
resources are used during the
handoff process
[ multiple network interfaces ]
TEST BED SETUP
 Implemented on Linux kernel 2.4.20, both the wireless access networks
are implemented with IEEE 802.11 based wireless LANs, The SIP stack
GNU oSIP2 2.0.6.

CONCLUSION
  SIP provides an elegant application layer mobility support that solves
the problems associated with lower layer mobility protocols.
  A test bed has been setup to measure the efficiency of the proposed
architecture. Experimental results show that the architecture is capable
of ensuring zero packet loss and controlled delay jitter.

OUR VIEWS/COMMENTS
 This approach is similar to multi-homing. The proposed solution is
similar to the “Multiple Interfaces, Single IP address per interface”
Variant of multi-homing, in which a host has multiple interfaces and each
interface has one, or more, IP addresses