MPA: A Network-Centric Architecture for Micro-Mobility Support in IP and MPLS Networks

Zagari, Eduardo; Prado, R.; Cardozo, Eleri; Magalhães, Mauricio Ferreira; Badan, Tomas; Carrilho, Jose; Pinto, Rossano P.; Berenguel, Andre; Barboza, Diego Cordeiro; Moraes, Daniel; Johnson, T.; Westberg, Lars

doi:10.1109/cnsr.2008.63

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“…We aim to predict the architecture behavior considering multiple users arrival rates (problem of scalability) and, for the attachment procedure, verify the Access Point and DHCP Server's bottlenecks already known by experimentation. The papers [2] and [5] present experimental results on the architecture testbed.…”

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Performance Analysis of a New Architecture for Mobility Support in IP Networks

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2008 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

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In this paper, we describe a queueing network model representing the Mobility Plane Architecture, which allows mobile users to register in the system and move around while stay connected. This paper presents a system overview, including node attachment, node updating and handover procedures. Two queueing network models and their evaluation on a simulation tool are presented, resulting in some important conclusions for our architecture and other micro-mobility proposals. Results show the importance of considering L2 and L3 association times because they can affect all procedures involving new registration and handover. I. INTRODUCTIONThe Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published several standards for supporting mobility in IP networks. The standards are divided into two categories, those supporting macro-mobility and those supporting micro-mobility. Macromobility refers to mobility across several networks, while micro-mobility refers to mobility within a single and potentially large network.Micro-mobility protocols aim to improve localized mobility by reducing the handover overheads [1]. Existing solutions for IP mobility present strong drawbacks that make these solutions simply undeployable. The problems are related to the complexity of the proposed solutions that turn their implementation on small mobile devices such as cell phones and handhelds unfeasible. In fact, manufactures of such devices never considered supporting the present solutions.Several projects aim to design and prototype architectures for supporting mobility in IP networks. The Mobility Plane Architecture Project [2] supports micro-mobility in IP, MPLS and GMPLS networks. Support for micro-mobility is a key issue in mobile IP networks since it speeds up the handover process, minimizing communication disruptions when a mobile node changes its network point of attachment.The problem addressed by this architecture is how to support micro-mobility in standard IP or MPLS/GMPLS networks in a network-centric way, that is, the burden demanded by micro-mobility is placed on the network, not on the mobile nodes.The aim of this paper is to present presents an overview of MPA architecture and some related models and performance results. A prototype of this architecture has been built, from

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“…The Mobility Plane Architecture Project [2] supports micro-mobility in IP, MPLS and GMPLS networks. Support for micro-mobility is a key issue in mobile IP networks since it speeds up the handover process, minimizing communication disruptions when a mobile node changes its network point of attachment.…”

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Performance Analysis of a New Architecture for Mobility Support in IP Networks

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2008 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

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“….~•----o The Mobility Plane Architecture (MPA) [2] is a network architecture for supporting mobility in IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) transport networks. In MPA, mobile routing functions are performed by the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) with two extensions: Traffic Engineering extensions that allow constraint-based routing of tunnels (RSVP-TE) [3]; and point-to-multipoint (P2MP) extensions that allow the signaling of P2MP tunnels [4].…”

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Swarm Based Construction of Large Scale Maze-Like Environments

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Maehle

2009

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Robotic Communication and Coordination

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Mobile robotics environments must adopt networking solutions that provide secure and reliable communications for the mobile robots across wide areas such as hospitals, factories, farms, etc. This paper proposes a network architecture for large mobile robotic environments built above the existing networking infrastructures. The architecture builds an overlay network above the already deployed network. The overlay network must fulfill the requirements demanded by mobile robotic applications, mainly, communication continuity during handover, security, and quality of service. A prototype of this architecture was implemented and evaluated in a mobile robotic environment composed of Pioneer P3-DX mobile robots accessed through the Internet. Results from simulation show that the architecture scales well in larger networking scenarios.

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