Performance of DNS as location manager for wireless systems in IP networks

Abstract

Abstract-Domain Name System (DNS) can be deployed in the network as a Location Manager (LM) for mobility management. The suitability of Domain Name System (DNS) as an LM can be measured by how successfully it can serve to locate a mobile host. In this paper, we developed an analytical model to measure the performance of DNS as LM for mobility management techniques with IP Diversity support based on success rate which takes into account the radius of the subnet, the residence time of MH in that subnet, latency in the network and the overlapping distance of two neighboring subnets. Our analysis shows that for a reasonable overlapping distance, DNS can serve as an LM with very high success rate even under some high network latency.

mSIGMA: An Efficient Handoff Scheme for Multi-Class Networks

“…The duration of the MH in the overlapping area and the time during which the MH communicates over both IP addresses depend on the velocity of the MH and the power of the signals from the access points. Each time the MH handoff to a new subnet, it updates the DNS with its new IP address [16]. …”

“…SIGMA is a mobility management scheme that performs efficient soft handoff [14] using multiple interfaces and has an effective location management scheme [16]. In a multi-class network, availability of different sized networks gives a mobile device with multiple interfaces the option to access both the networks depending on the need and the available bandwidth.…”

Performance analysis of DNS-assisted global mobility management scheme in cost-optimized proxy mobile IPv6 Networks

“…DNS is used widely, so it could globally locate an MN. [5] suggested a feasible solution without new entities using the DNS as a location manager. Thus, in order to support global mobility in PMIPv6, we bring in a DNS that performs the role of a location manager.…”

SINEMO: An IP-diversity based Approach for Network Mobility in Space

“…If we use domain name as host identity, we can merge the Location Manager (LM) functionality into a DNS server. The idea of using a DNS server to locate mobile users can be traced back to [1], and performance analysis of DNS as LM can found in the works of Reaz et al [17]. This will make the deployment of SINEMO much more flexible than NEMO.…”

“…When a host first enters a mobile network, it registers with the local DNS server associated with the mobile network and obtains a temporary name [17]. This local DNS server in the MN is co-located with the MR.…”