Performance Analysis of Inter-Domain Handoff Scheme Based on Virtual Layer in PMIPv6 Networks for IP-Based Internet of Things

PLoS One. 2017 Jan 27;12(1):e0170566. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170566. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Lately, we see that Internet of things (IoT) is introduced in medical services for global connection among patients, sensors, and all nearby things. The principal purpose of this global connection is to provide context awareness for the purpose of bringing convenience to a patient's life and more effectively implementing clinical processes. In health care, monitoring of biosignals of a patient has to be continuously performed while the patient moves inside and outside the hospital. Also, to monitor the accurate location and biosignals of the patient, appropriate mobility management is necessary to maintain connection between the patient and the hospital network. In this paper, a binding update scheme on PMIPv6, which reduces signal traffic during location updates by Virtual LMA (VLMA) on the top original Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) Domain, is proposed to reduce the total cost. If a Mobile Node (MN) moves to a Mobile Access Gateway (MAG)-located boundary of an adjacent LMA domain, the MN changes itself into a virtual mode, and this movement will be assumed to be a part of the VLMA domain. In the proposed scheme, MAGs eliminate global binding updates for MNs between LMA domains and significantly reduce the packet loss and latency by eliminating the handoff between LMAs. In conclusion, the performance analysis results show that the proposed scheme improves performance significantly versus PMIPv6 and HMIPv6 in terms of the binding update rate per user and average handoff latency.

MeSH terms

  • Cloud Computing
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Delivery of Health Care*
  • Humans
  • Internet*
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
  • Movement
  • Wireless Technology*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Technology Innovation Program (10054486, Development of Open Industry IoT (IIoT) Smart Factory Platform and Factory-Thing Hardware Technology) funded By the Ministry of Trade, industry & Energy (MI, Korea). This work was supported by "The Components & Materials Technology Development Program (10043800, Development of Micro Smart Environmental Sensor Measurement Module, Control Chip, and Application Program)" funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MI, Korea). This work was supported by the Energy Technology Development Program (2013T100200078, development of integrated demand response system technology for co-residential resources and demonstration of business model) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea). This work was supported by Global Creative Software (GCS) Project (No. 2014-044-028-001, Development of ICT Convergence Technology for Design Optimization and Construction Technology Innovation of the Structural Frame and Envelope) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP).