Paper Info
Title
A hierarchical mobility management scheme based on software defined networking.
Abstract
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new paradigm which allows the network devices to be more programmable and easily controlled. SDN can be applied to improve the flexibility and performance of mobile networks. As a key problem of SDN-based mobile networks, the mobility management still cannot simultaneously support various different scenarios and has the limitations of high signaling cost and handover delay. In order to overcome these drawbacks of existing related protocols, we propose a SDN-based mobility management scheme named H-SMM by constructing a hierarchical architecture in control plane to support intra-domain and inter-domain handover scenarios at the same time. Then we design handover procedures to simplify intra-domain handover and optimize inter-domain handover respectively. In addition, the communication initiation procedure is also provided. Qualitative analysis shows H-SMM is an overall mobility management scheme. Calculative analysis indicates that H-SMM has lower signaling cost. Simulation results illustrate that the handover delay and the end to end delay of first packet in communication initiation are lower than contrast schemes. Moreover, our evaluation also shows that the above performance advantages of H-SMM will be more evident with the increasing of domain numbers and distance between domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s12083-017-0615-z
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobility management, SDN, Hierarchical, Signaling cost, Delay
Routing control plane,End-to-end delay,Architecture,Mobility management,Computer science,Networking hardware,Network packet,Computer network,Software-defined networking,Handover,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
2
1936-6450
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xing Yin100.68
Liang Min Wang24814.76
Shunrong Jiang361.84