Paper Info
Title
Classification and Evaluation of Multicast-Based Mobility Support in All-IP Cellular Networks
Abstract
To solve the IP mobility problem the use of multicast has been proposed in a number of different approaches, applying multicast in different characteristic ways. In this paper we provide a framework to classify such approaches by analyzing requirements, options for using multicast protocols, and mobility functionalities augmenting the mul- ticast. Within this framework we identify promising combinations of mechanisms and derive four classes of multicast protocols. These classes include both the standard any-source IP multicast model as well as non- standard multicast models. In particular, the use of source-specific mul- ticast is a new approach to support mobility and turns out to be espe- cially beneficial. The paper describes a corresponding network architec- ture and a flexible software environment that allows to easily implement these and other classes of mobility-supporting multicast protocols. Based on this software environment, an implemented prototype and measure- ments quantify handover-specific metrics, namely handover and paging latency and packet loss and duplication rates, showing that a multicast- based mobility solution has comparable performance to standard Mobile IP/hierarchical Mobile IP. Moreover, it is shown that a non-standard multicast model has reduced implementation and deployment complex- ity and security risks than a standard multicast model.1
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-642-55569-5_19
KiVS
Keywords
Field
DocType
ip multicast,packet loss,mobile ip,cellular network
Mobile IP,Computer science,Optical IP Switching,Xcast,Computer network,Loose Source Routing,Multicast,IP forwarding,IP tunnel,IP multicast,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Festag159494.11
H. Karl21817180.47
Adam Wolisz32693407.71