Abstract
Handover management is one of the most critical issues that mobility management protocols are concerned with. This process becomes even more critical in the case of Micro-mobility where the Mobile host is expected to encounter frequent handovers. Several IP micro-mobility protocols have been proposed to enhance the performance of Mobile IP in an environment with frequent handoffs. In this paper we evaluate and compare the performance of two micro-mobility protocols namely HAWAII and Cellular IP. The aim of the paper is to investigate and compare the impact of handoffs. Simulation results shows that the semisoft handoffs scheme Cellular IP can achieve a smooth handoff with minimum data loss when the mobile host is in the overlap area whereas MSF scheme works well when the mobile hosts is not in the overlap area.