This paper aims to deal with the location management broker scheme to support the efficient SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) handoff. SCTP provides the mobile node with the multi-homing feature, which can be utilized during handover in order to reduce the packet loss. Location management is one of the important management schemes in the mobile environment. We propose the broker mechanism which performs the address resolution according to the location change of mobile node more quickly. The operations of location management broker scheme are classified into three cases: operation during the data active association, operation without active association, and operation for new connection with another CN (correspondent node) when the MN (mobile node) is the overlapped region.

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