Mobility Management Framework of Local Mobility

IP mobility solutions allow mobile nodes to roam while retaining connectivity to the internet. However, as these solutions evolve, mobile node implementations continue to undergo modification. Since mobile nodes represent hundreds of thousands of hosts worldwide, deploying new mobility protocols will become expensive. The main objective of this project was to design a framework that decouples the mobile node from route repair, which reduces the implementation and deployment time of new solutions. The proposed framework reengineers existing IP mobility protocols in order to facilitate the transition for network administrators. The second objective of the project was to provide a prototype of the framework to gain acceptance for our design within the Internet community. The result of this work is a mobility management framework that not only reduces the effects of deployment, but also provides a standard interface to the mobile node.

Mobility Management Framework of Local Mobility

IP mobility solutions allow mobile nodes to roam while retaining connectivity to the internet. However, as these solutions evolve, mobile node implementations continue to undergo modification. Since mobile nodes represent hundreds of thousands of hosts worldwide, deploying new mobility protocols will become expensive. The main objective of this project was to design a framework that decouples the mobile node from route repair, which reduces the implementation and deployment time of new solutions. The proposed framework reengineers existing IP mobility protocols in order to facilitate the transition for network administrators. The second objective of the project was to provide a prototype of the framework to gain acceptance for our design within the Internet community. The result of this work is a mobility management framework that not only reduces the effects of deployment, but also provides a standard interface to the mobile node.

Multihoming Support in Mobile IP Networks: Progress, Challenges and Solutions

IP network mobility has already emerged as a key domain of wireless IP networking. The network research community has taken great interest and paid considerable attention to advance IP mobility applications. Accordingly, different advanced networking mechanisms have been considered to optimize IP network mobility. One of these mechanisms is network multi-homing which has been the focus of many IP mobility studies within the academic research and IETF communities. The combination of network mobility and multi-homing has turned into a conceivable approach to effectively deal with expanding system availability and improving the performance of mobile IP network. There are many studies proposed during the recent years to realize network multi-homing for the Network Mobility Basic Support (NEMO BS) protocol, a leading IETF IP mobility protocol. This paper studies and reviews up-to-date research works in supporting multi-homing for NEMO-based mobile IP networks. The aim is to investigate the current state of multi-homing support for NEMO networks and outline recent research directions in this regard.