O. C. Ugweje

Work place: Education & Curriculum, Digital Bridge Institute Abuja, Nigeria

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer systems and computational processes, Engineering

Biography

Professor Okechukwu C. Ugweje is currently the Vice President, Academic and Student
Affairs, at the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Abuja. He also holds appointments as an
Adjunct Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and
Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Technology, Minna. Before he joined DBI,
he was a tenured Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of
Akron, Akron OH, USA teaching courses in Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT), Digital Signal Processing, Probability and Random Processes,
Computer Networking and Architecture. His consulting, teaching and research interests
are in all areas of ICT, terrestrial wireless and satellite communication networks. Prior to the above appointments, he worked as a telecommunications engineer with Siemens Network Telecom Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. Prof. Ugweje is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and several IEEE societies. He is married with children

Author Articles
Implementation of a Locator-Based Route Switching Scheme for Improved Routing in Proxy Mobile IPv6

By M. Okwori E. N. Onwuka A. M. Aibinu O. C. Ugweje

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2014.04.01, Pub. Date: 1 Nov. 2014

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is a promising IP mobility protocols that is being deployed in emerging wireless technologies. This however has a non-optimal packet route as a result of the triangular routing problem. This creates a bottle neck at the Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) thereby increasing packet delays. This paper presents the implementation of a locator-based route switching scheme on OPNET Modeler. The Mobility Access Gateway (MAG) and the LMA were enhanced by making them intelligent. This enables them to be able to check the position of the Corresponding Node (CN) with respect to the Mobile Node (MN) and also determine the available bandwidth on each link. From the checks made, a three-stage decision process is used to switch routing to the most optimal route that guarantees the best QoS. Node Models were developed for the MAG and LMA, network models were deployed and simulation tests were carried out. The results show that the developed scheme switched packets to a more optimal route according to the designed algorithm. The impact of this switching on differences between transmitted throughput at MN and the received throughput at CN was also evaluated. The receiver activity result shows a reduction in the bottleneck at the LMA-MAG link. The end-to-end delay results show over 50 milliseconds drop in packet delay as a result of the switching to a more optimal route. This shows that the packet delays result from the congestion at the LMA-MAG interface due to suboptimal routing.

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