PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MICROMOBILITY PROTOCOLS IN IP NETWORKS ANÁLISE DE DESEMPENHO DE PROTOCOLOS DE MICRO-MOBILIDADE PARA REDES IP

by MENDES DE, MACSON JOSE

Since some years ago the Internet is continually grwoing in importance in the peoples life, even for work, amusement, information or businesses. That spread is making the need for access goes outside the office or the home and reach the free air, the people would like to access Internet of his/her notebook while they are in their path for the work, home or school. To make it possible the IETF made studies and it defined a standard, The Mobile IP. However the Mobile IP doesn t totally solve the mobility problem in Internet, and to complement it, the micromobility protocols had appeared. In this work was analyzed the two main protocols of micromobility in detail and was suggested an extension for the improvement of the performance of the wireless access to the Internet.