A flow mobility management architecture based on proxy mobile IPv6 for vehicular networks

Vehicular network applications may be benefited by the use of simultaneous network interfaces to maximize through-put and reducing latency. In order to take advantage of all radio interfaces of the vehicle and to provide a good quality of service for vehicular applications, we have developed an architecture that performs the management of the flow mobility based on some classes of application for vehicle network. Our goal is to minimize the time of handover between the rings of flows in order to meet the minimum requirements of vehicular applications, as well as to maximize the throughput. Simulations have been conducted to analyze the performance of the proposed architecture by comparing it to other previously devised architectures. As a result, the proposed architecture presented a low delivery time of messages, packets with lower loss and lower delay.