Design And Implementation Of A Network-centric Micro-mobility Architecture

This paper presents the design and implementation of the Mobility Plane Architecture (MPA). MPA is a network architecture that provides micro-mobility in a network-centric way, that is, the burden of supporting micro-mobility is placed on the network and not on the mobile nodes. The implementation employs RSVP-TE to establish IP/IP and MPLS pointto- multipoint tunnels in order to direct traffic to the mobile nodes. DHCP is used for tracking the mobile node locations and RSVP-TE opaque data carries the location information to install routes to them. Results obtained in a lab-sized network and some quantitative comparisons between MPA and other related work are presented as well. © 2009 IEEE.Johnson, D., Perkins, C., Arkko, J., (2004) Mobility Support in IPv6, , IETF, RFC 3775, JuneZagari, E., MPA: A Network-Centric Architecture for Micro- Mobility Support in IP and MPLS Networks (2008) Sixth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR2008), , MayPrado, R., A Reference Architecture for Micro-Mobility Support in IP Networks (2008) The Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC2008), , JulySoliman, H., (2005) Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6), , IETF, RFC 4140, AugustKoodli, R., (2005) Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6, , IETF, RFC 4068, JulyGundavelli, S., Leung, K., Devarapalli, V., Chowdhury, K., Patil, B., (2008) Proxy Mobile IPv6, , IETF, RFC 5213, AugustChiussi, D.K.F.A., Krishnan, S., A Network Architecture for MPLSbased Micro-Mobility (2002) IEEE WCNC 2002, 2, pp. 549-555. , 2, MarRami Langar, Samir Tohme and Gwendal Le Grand, Micro Mobile MPLS: A New Scheme for Micro-mobility Management in 3G All-IP Networks, ISCC, 00, pp. 301-306, 2005Kaiduan Xie, V.W., Leung, V., Support of Micro-Mobility in MPLSbased Wireless Access Networks (2003) IEEE WCNC 2003, 2, pp. 1242-1247. , 2, 16-20 MarchFowler, S., Zeadally, S., Fast Handover over Micro-MPLS-Based Wireless Networks (2006) Computers and Communications, 2006. ISCC '06. Proceedings. 11th IEEE Symposium on, pp. 181-186. , 26-29 JuneAwduche, D., (2001) RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels, , IETF, RFC 3209, DecemberYasukawa, S., (2006) Signaling Requirements for Point-to-Multipoint Traffic- Engineered MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs), , IETF, RFC 4461, AprilBadan, T., A Network Architecture for Providing Micro-Mobility in MPLS/GMPLS Networks (2009) IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC2009), , MayRosen, A.V.E., Callon, R., (2001) Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture, , IETF, RFC 3031, JanuaryNarten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., Soliman, H., (2007) Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), , IETF, RFC 4861, Septembe