An Evaluation of Handover by Virtual MAC Address Scheme on Mobile Ethernet

Mobile Ethernet is one of mobility management architectures for integrating future heterogeneous wireless systems. This paper describes the virtual MAC address scheme on Mobile Ethernet and gives qualitative comparison of Mobile Ethernet architecture with other mobility supports. For a quantitative analysis, we give an analytical network model through a Markovian model. To evaluate the handover latency of Mobile Ethernet as well as three other mobility supports, the sequence of location update formulates the handover latency. The handover latency is compared with each other. From the numerical result, Mobile Ethernet achieves small handover latency and high scalability in case of handover depending on service rates of switches and capacities of links. Keywords— Mobile Ethernet, Mobility, Handover, Markovian analysis