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MULTI-INTERFACE MOBILE MODEL FOR MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER<br />

Figure 7.12 Heterogeneity of ADI vs. <strong>Handover</strong> delay (without cross-layer trigger<br />

mechanism)<br />

To evaluate the impact of ADI on handover delay, the ADI of the agent router is varied<br />

with ADF = 3*ADI. Figure 7.13 shows that the handover delay is not <strong>in</strong>fluenced by the<br />

vary<strong>in</strong>g ADIs (of both the old and the new APs) <strong>in</strong> the cross-layer trigger scenario. The<br />

MH with the cross-layer trigger enabled can trigger the mobile IP registration with the<br />

new AP immediately once the loss of radio connection is detected at l<strong>in</strong>k layers.<br />

However, if no cross-layer trigger mechanism is applied on the MH, move detection<br />

would not occur until the advertisement from the current AP expires. In this case, the<br />

ADF of access routers would have an impact on handover delay. Moreover, through the<br />

simulation, it is found that the advertisement from the new AP may get lost due to the<br />

collision at the MAC layer dur<strong>in</strong>g handover. Therefore, the handover delay moves up as<br />

the ADI rises (as shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 7.14). The MH may experience the smaller handover<br />

delay of 40ms if the cross-layer trigger is enabled.<br />

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