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Global Handover Latency Minimisation in HMIPv6 SAURABH BANSAL, ABOUBAKER LASEBAE, RICHARD COMLEY School of Computer Science Middlesex University Bounds Green Road, London N112NQ UK Abstract – Numbers of mobile users are growing at an exponential rate and the future looks bright [11]. Mobile IP was introduced to satisfy the growing demand for IP based services by the mobile users. The growing demand for delay sensitive applications [4], e.g. audio streaming, required Mobile IP to support low latency seamless handoffs. Hierarchical Mobile IP (HMIP) was introduced to reduce average handover latency by differentiating between local and global handoffs [3]. HMIP has attracted a lot of attention from the research community. The main problem with Hierarchical Mobile IP is when a mobile node undergoes a global handover it undergoes a triple binding update, which adds to handover latency. We propose a seamless handover architecture that builds on top of hierarchical Mobile IP to facilitate global seamless handover whilst reducing the handover latency. We propose coverage area overlaps between domains to facilitate seamless transition from one domain to another. Using mathematical analysis, we argue that our proposal effectively reduces global handover latency. Lower handover latency along with seamless intra-domain transition further reduces packet loss. Our proposal is fully compatible with Hierarchical Mobile IP and Mobile IPv6. Key-Words: - Mobile IP, Hierarchical Mobile IP, Seamless Handoff  Introduction Although the Internet offers access to information sources worldwide, typically we do not expect to benefit from that access until we arrive at some familiar point whether home, office, or school. However, the increasing variety of wireless devices offering IP connectivity, such as PDA’s, handhelds, and digital cellular phones, is beginning to change our perceptions of the Internet. By the use of the conventional network configuration, a computer