Paper Info
Title
Migrating home agents towards internet-scale mobility deployments
Abstract
While the IETF standardization process of the Mobile IPv6 and Network Mobility (NEMO) protocols is almost complete, their large-scale deployment is not yet possible. With these technologies, in order to hide location changes of the mobile nodes from the rest of the Internet, a specific router called a home agent is used. However, this equipment generates resilience and performance issues such as protocol scalability and longer paths. In order to solve these problems, we describe and analyze a new concept called Home Agent Migration. The main feature of this solution is the distribution of home agents inside the current Internet topology to reduce distances to end-nodes. As is usually done for anycast routing, they advertise the same network prefix from different locations; moreover they also exchange information about their associations with mobile nodes. This produces a Global Mobile eXchange (GMX), an overlay network that efficiently handles data traffic from and to mobile nodes, and operates home agents as would an Internet eXchange Point (IXP). When a correspondent node needs to exchange packets with a mobile node, the data traffic will be intercepted by its closest GMX home agent and redirected to the home agent to which the mobile node is bound.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1368436.1368450
CoNEXT
Keywords
Field
DocType
home agent,mobile node,internet-scale mobility deployment,internet exchange point,data traffic,exchange information,correspondent node,current internet topology,closest gmx home agent,migrating home agent,global mobile exchange,mobile ipv6,overlay network,internet topology
Mobile computing,Mobile IP,Mobile search,Internet exchange point,Mobility management,Computer science,Mobile agent,Computer network,Mobile database,Overlay network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-456-1
29
2.36
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryuji Wakikawa150747.82
Guillaume Valadon2445.45
Jun Murai317145.72