Intelligent Mobility Management Support Scheme With Security Enhancement in Vehicular Ad‐Hoc Networks

ABSTRACT Implementing IP‐based networking in vehicular communication scenarios is expected to facilitate the introduction of a wide range of security‐enhanced roadway applications. Mobility management is one of the most challenging research areas, playing a vital role in enabling seamless mobility services within a secure vehicular environment. Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6) and Hierarchical Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (HMIPv6) are two security‐based mobility management solutions or protocols designed by IETF for IPv6 wireless communication networks. Utilizing these two schemes, this article presents a security enhanced novel Intelligent Mobility Management Support (IMMS) scheme that selects better alternative out of the two already presented relay vehicle selection schemes that is, Clustering based Optimal Relay Vehicle Selection (CORV) selection scheme and Adaptive Priority and Optimum Parameters (APOP) based optimal relay vehicle selection scheme, depending upon moving vehicle's mobility and its unique characteristics. In the proposed IMMS scheme, analytical modeling has been carried out for the performance evaluation of APOP and CORV selection schemes. Due to the similarity of the network architecture proposed for APOP and CORV with MIPv6 and HMIPv6, respectively, the performance comparison is done based on the Total Cost Function, ‘’ with security enhancement. A comparison of performance in terms of ‘’ is done against some key parameters. It is then demonstrated that the proposed IMMS scheme yields the minimum cost in terms of ‘’, and Packet Delivery Cost, ‘’, compared to the CORV and APOP selection schemes.