Multihomed Mobile Network Architecture

Abstract

IP mobility ensures network reachability and session continuity while IPv6 networks are on the move. In the Network Mobility (NEMO) model, the potential for NEMO Mobile Routers (MRs) to interconnect and extend Internet connectivity allows the formation Nested NEMO networks. With MANEMO, nested MRs can be efficiently interconnected in a tree-based structure with Internet access being maintained via a designated Gateway. However, this only supports single-homed Internet connectivity.With the span of wireless access technologies and the popularity of multi-interfaced devices, multihoming support in this scenario becomes critical. A Nested Mobile Network with heterogeneous available Internet access options would allow better overall network performance and optimal utilisation of available resources. In this paper, we present the Multihomed Mobile Network Architecture (MMNA), a comprehensive multihomed mobility solution. It provides a multihoming management mechanism for Gateway Discovery and Selection on top of a multihomed mobility model integrating different mobility and multihoming protocols. It enables a complex nested multihomed topology to be established with multiple gateways supporting heterogeneous Internet access. The results demonstrate that the proposed solution achieves better overall throughput, load sharing, and link failure recovery.

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.…”

Accurate and Efficient Measurements of IP Level Performance to Drive Interface Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

“…Most approaches (see [3] and references therein) focus on the architectural and protocol aspects of mobility management and provide little or no details on the underlying measurements procedure. For instance, in [23] the authors consider an architecture for network mobility within the context of the IETF NEMO (Network Mobility) WG and only mention that "There are a number of metrics that can be measured, with the most common being QoS metrics such as bandwidth, delay and packet loss". Other approaches exclusively rely on measurements taken on user traffic.…”

Efficient Mobility and Multihoming Support for Mountain Rescue

“…It shows the two main MMNA processes, namely Multihomed Tree Establishment and Gateway Discovery and Selection. This section briefly describes these main components (for more details see [8]).…”