Efficient Mobility and Multihoming Support for Mountain Rescue

Abstract

Introducing an IP-based communication system into the mountain rescue domain would enable carrying out search and rescue missions in an effective way. With efficient mobility and multihoming support, a Mountain Rescue Team would be able to establish more effective and reliable Internet communication. In this paper, we present the Multihomed Mobile Network Architecture (MMNA), a comprehensive multihomed mobility solution for complex nested mobility scenarios. It provides a multihoming management mechanism for gateway discovery and selection, on top of an efficient multihomed mobility model integrating different mobility and multihoming protocols. The design of the MMNA solution is first presented. We then describe how the MMNA was experimentally implemented and evaluated in a testbed setup to examine its effectiveness and feasibility considering a use case example of a mountain rescue scenario. The results highlight the practicality and advantages of deploying the MMNA into such a critical real-world scenario.

Multihoming Support in Mobile IP Networks: Progress, Challenges and Solutions

“…This helped in balancing the connectivity among the nested MRs and optimally distributing their traffic load across the network. In [30,31], the experimental results demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed multihoming NEMO solution in providing load balancing support.…”

“…Another effort that considered network measurement based selections is the Multihomed Mobile Network Architecture (MMNA) in [30] and [31]. It also incorporates enables policy management to provide comprehensive multihoming support and management for nested NEMO networks.…”

“…Examples are [29,34] in which a simple fault tolerance approaches were developed for the multihomed nested NEMO scenarios. The evaluation results in [30,31] indicated that the proposed multihoming architecture solution helped in ensured efficient fault tolerance support.…”

Cooperative Game Based Resource Allocation in Hybrid D2D Cellular Network

“…Another solution is the Multihomed MANEMO (M-MANEMO) proposed by [10] based on merging two protocols, MANEMO and MCoA. These protocols provide the necessary functions to support different mobility and multihoming operations.…”

The Effect of Network’s Size on the Performance of the Gateway Discovery and Selection Scheme for MANEMO

“…The multiple exits' problem can be solved if additional information related to the exit routes is carried to the MRs along with the route information. The Multi-homed MANEMO (M-MANEMO) proposed by [7] merges two protocols: MCoA and MANEMO to support different multi-homed and mobility operations. M-MANEMO enables a multi-homed mobile tree and multiple gateways crossing the tree to provide heterogeneous Internet access.…”