An ID/Locator Separation Based Group Mobility Management in Wireless Body Area Network

Table 1

Comparison of mobility management architectures.

Relevant protocols	PMIP-Coordinator [9]	ID-LOC-based scheme [10]	Proposed scheme
Mobility agent	LMA	DLMA, AGW	AGW
Identifier/Locators	HoA, CoA	GDID, AID, GLOC	GDID, GLOC, LLOC (AID)
RS/RA message exchange	Between coordinator and PMD (one time)	Between body sensors and PMD (each body sensor)	Between Coordinator and PMD (one time)