Performance Evaluation of Handoff in Mobile IPv6 Networks: The Case of Safety-Critical Systems with NIMBLE Platform for Mobility

In real-time systems, when failures of any nature come to happen, high-value assets are put at risk and in some cases even human lives. Due to this high criticality, developing improvements to these systems in order to increase their safety becomes a topic of high importance. This research reviews handoff procedures in IPv6 networks to help identify those with lower latency and low packet loss during the operation, aiming to increase the efficiency of general communication in these systems. For this, some handoff techniques found in the literature are simulated and, from the obtained results, performance comparisons are presented following specific statistical techniques to evaluate the performance of computational systems. Finally, a discussion on the application of these techniques in critical embedded systems is presented, specially unmanned vehicles.