Investigation of Internet of Things Handover Process for InformationCentric Networking and Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol

Abstract

IoT (Internet of Things) technically connects billions of entities to the Internet. The IoT is dividedbetween the technology and the service itself. As a result, great efforts are needed to join data from manycontexts and services. This reason has motivated proposals to develop solutions that can overcome existingissues of limitations for mobility, security, reliability and scalability of IoT. These billions of devices areinterconnected to each other either using unicast, multicast or broadcast communications, and mixtureof static and mobile communications. This paper aims to investigate the parameters of mobilityperformance in handover process for mobile multicast IoT environment. Investigation is donequantitatively by evaluating the parameters of handover process for IoT in two networking protocols thatare possible to support acceptable mobility performance for IoT. The protocols are ICN (InformationCentric Networking) and Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol. The evaluation parameters include packet lossand service recovery time. The metrics are extracted from the handover process flow for each networkprotocol topology. The service recovery time parameter is assumed as the time duration for each messageto travel from sender to receiver, while packet loss parameter depends on the packet arrival rate andservice recovery time. The results show that the ICN performs better than Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol.