DM3: distributed mobility management in MPLS‐based access networks

Abstract

Over the last few years, mobility management in the Internet has been one of the most active fields in communications. The recent increasing mobile traffic demand is having an important impact on the design of mobile networks and some limitations are arising from traditional network deployments. In order to deal with this new scenario, mobility management network architectures are being redesigned towards a more distributed operation. In this paper, we introduce DM3 (distributed mobility management MPLS), a fully distributed architecture designed to track efficiently the mobility of users in the current paradigm of evolving mobile IP networks. In DM3 architecture, several nodes are distributed in the MPLS-based access network and the mobile nodes are served by a close-by mobility anchor. With this operation, we reduce the routing and registration update costs, and provide a low handoff latency with a minimal packet loss rate. Analytical and experimental results are presented to justify the benefits of our proposed architecture. He has published many articles and books and directed research projects related to computing and networking. Currently, he is the general manager of the Fundation COMPUTAEX and the Center CénitS.David Cortés-Polo He got his BS and MS degree in

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“…In all these solutions, the previous serving router of the MN is the one responsible for initiating the buffering mechanism. DM3 also achieves ordered delivery thanks to the recovery mechanism described in [8]. However, it is worth noting that handover latency in HB-DMM and NB-DMM is dependent on the number of connections as was depicted in Figure 10.…”

“…Additionally, we introduce DM3 [8]. This solution relies on a distributed architecture that is based on Mobile IPv6.…”

“…In this article, we develop an analytical framework that allows the evaluation and comparison of mobility protocols in order to identify the benefits and limitations of the DMM paradigm. This analytical model is an extension of our previous work [8], adding many refinements and extensions to achieve a unified model which can evaluate both centralized and distributed mobility protocols in terms of mobility costs and handover performance. Additionally, the proposed model uses a new parameter, namely, Mobility Anchor Load (MAL), which is defined as the current data generated by a mobile node (MN) to the number of mobility anchors associated with the MN, to observe the average load of each of the different anchors distributed across the network.…”

“…Additionally, the proposed model uses a new parameter, namely, Mobility Anchor Load (MAL), which is defined as the current data generated by a mobile node (MN) to the number of mobility anchors associated with the MN, to observe the average load of each of the different anchors distributed across the network. We consider MIPv6 and PMIPv6 as two main representatives for the centralized mobility management paradigm and Host-Based DMM [9], Network-Based DMM [10], and our DM3 (Distributed Mobility Management MPLS) proposal [8] as the distributed schemes. In addition to the analytical evaluation, the model is validated through simulation.…”

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