Deployment of a Simple and Cost-Effective Mobile IPv6 Testbed for the Study of Handover Execution

Abstract

In the performance evaluation of any networking system, the testbed approach is more difficult, expensive and time consuming compared to the analytical and simulation approaches; however, the former has the advantage of realistic results. The purpose of this paper is to present, in detail, the deployment of a simple and cost-effective Linux-based Mobile IPv6 Testbed for the study of handover execution with testing checkpoints and debugging procedures. Further, this paper evaluates performance metrics such as bandwidth, packet delay, jitter and handover delay with respect to TCP and UDP traffic, and compares the same with the MIPv6 NS2 simulation results. Numerical results show that there is a marked variance between testbed and simulation results. © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.