An Application-Driven Mobility Management Scheme for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Networks

— Mobile users are expected to be highly dynamic in next generation mobile networks. Additionally they will be served a wide variety of services with different transmission rates and expect high Quality of Service (QoS). Since the number of mobile subscribers is rapidly increasing and given the limited resources of any robust network, guarantee of high QoS is possible only by the deployment of network elements that optimally allocate network resources and instantly adapt to network conditions. In attempt to support mobility in IP networks, the Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) has been proposed. An important issue that has been highly overlooked in the design of HMIPv6 consists in its lack of a mechanism that can efficiently control and distribute traffic among multiple Mobility Anchor Points (MAPs). In the absence of such mechanism, some MAPs may get congested while others remain underutilized. In such scenario, mobile users connecting to congested MAPs may experience significant...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Tarik Taleb, Yuji Ikeda, Kazuo Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Nemoto, Nei Kato
• Keywords: Communications, Generation Mobile Networks, ICC 2007, Mobile Users, Transmission Rate