Hierarchical Mobile Research Articles

A novel enhanced authentication scheme supporting forwarding mode in heterogeneous hierarchical mobile IPv6 networks

This paper makes its focus on how to reduce the longer delay and extra cost arising from the combination of authentication, authority and accounting (AAA) and hierarchical mobile Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) further. Firstly, a novel enhanced authentication scheme (E-AAA) is proposed, which supports fast handover mode and forwarding mode between different mobility anchor points (MAPs). Secondly, a cost analysis model is established based on E-AAA. From the theoretical analysis, it could be noted that the cost is affected by average arrival rate and residence time. Finally, the performance comparison demonstrates that the total cost of using E-AAA is much lower than that of the traditional solution, the longer the distance between Root AAA Server (RAAAS) and its home domain is, the more obvious the efficiency shows.

A comparative performance analysis on Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 and Proxy Mobile IPv6

This paper presents comparative results on Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 and Proxy Mobile IPv6. The two mobility support protocols have similar hierarchical mobility management architectures but there are, however, clearly different perceptions: Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 has specific properties of a host-based mobility support protocol, whereas Proxy Mobile IPv6 is based on a network-based mobility support protocol. Thus, it is important to reveal their mobility characteristics and performance impact factors. In this paper, a cost based evaluation model is developed that evaluates the location update cost, the packet delivery cost, and the wireless power consumption cost based on the protocol operations used. Then, the numerical results are presented in where impacts of the various system parameters are evaluated. The results demonstrate that Proxy Mobile IPv6 always outperforms Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 due to its ability to avoid the mobility signaling sent by the mobile host, and its reduced tunneling overhead during communications with other nodes.

Intra domain route optimization for ubiquitous network

The main advantage of a wireless network is user mobility, which calls for efficient routing support at the network layer. An architecture combines hierarchical mobile IPv6 and network mobility for a network mobile and mobile nodes move in tandem and make a hierarchy in the wireless network to management of micro-mobility and seamless handoff. But the capability of the architecture for intra domain route optimization is impaired. So we propose functionality in domain nodes to enable intra domain path optimization for ubiquitous network. It is shown that intra domain cost effect is beneficial in every hierarchical domain that spans mesh network topology. We address the key function for our proposed scheme and analyze the usefulness of our proposed method using mathematically. We show that our proposed scheme performs much better than Network Mobility protocol, especially when the number of mobile nodes or mobile routers or correspondent nodes increases in hierarchically nested in ubiquitous networks.

Mobility label based network: Hierarchical mobility management and packet forwarding architecture

Scalability of the network layer mobility management solution is one of the most important requirements for the mobility control plane. Mobility Label Based Network (MLBN) is a new approach to the network layer mobility management problem that relies solely on MPLS to provide both macro- and micro-mobility for IPv4 and IPv6 mobile hosts and routers. This new approach does not rely on the existing IP mobility management protocols such as Mobile IP and is based on the combination of Multi-Protocol BGP (MP-BGP) and MPLS. In the context of the MLBN the scalable control plane should be capable of efficient Mobility Label distribution while allowing the MPLS-based forwarding plane to deliver mobile traffic in an optimal manner. This paper presents a hierarchical mobility management system capable of both macro- and micro-mobility support without the use of Mobile IP and its derivatives and allows scalable Mobility Label distribution and MPLS label stack based packet forwarding in support of optimal traffic delivery between the communicating mobile users.

Topology Stability Analysis and Its Application in Hierarchical Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The hierarchical architecture has been proven effective for solving the scalability problems in large-scale ad hoc networks. The stability of the hierarchical architecture is a key factor in determining the network performance. Although many solutions have been proposed to construct stable clusters, the maximum stability achievable in mobile environments is still unknown. In this paper, we define three metrics for measuring network stability: (1) the cluster lifetime;(2) the intercluster link lifetime; and (3) the end-to-end path lifetime. We model and analyze the maximum of these lifetimes under the constraint of random node mobility. Analytical results provide the fundamental understanding of the bounds on network stability. Inspired by this understanding, we propose a clustering algorithm and a hierarchical routing protocol that work together to achieve the maximum network stability. The analytical results are verified by simulations.

DEMAPS: A Load-Transition-Based Mobility Management Scheme for an Efficient Selection of MAP in Mobile IPv6 Networks

One major concern for mobile networks consists of finding efficient ways of handling user mobility so that the handover process has minimum effect on users' ongoing sessions. Given the dominance of Internet-based applications in next-generation mobile networks, mobile IP (MIP) has become an important protocol for accommodating the IP mobility. To overcome the excessive delay and signaling involved in the first version of MIP, the hierarchical mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) protocol has been introduced. The key concept behind HMIPv6 is to locally handle handovers by the usage of an entity called mobility anchor point (MAP). Although the new protocol provides a more efficient way for mobility management in IP networks, it does not control traffic among multiple MAPs in the network. Thus, in many cases, the selected MAP is overloaded, and extensive delays are experienced during the routing process. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes a new technique, i.e., dynamic efficient MAP selection (DEMAPS). The proposed scheme works similar to HMIPv6 when the network is not overloaded. When the network gets heavy loads, the selection of MAPs is based on an estimation of MAP load transition using the exponential moving average method. Simulation results demonstrate that DEMAPS can efficiently balance the signaling traffic load among MAPs and provides a superior network performance compared with traditional HMIP schemes.

Diffusion processes of single fluorescent molecules in a polymer-based thin material with three-dimensional network

Single-molecule imaging revealed the hierarchical mobility change of guest dyes in a polymer-based thin film under network formation: at the early stage of the reaction, only the translational diffusion was inhibited while keeping the rotational diffusion active, the fraction of translationally immobilized dyes increased with increasing crosslinking, and at the last stage both motions stopped.

HIMIPv6: An Efficient IP Mobility Management Protocol for Broadband Wireless Networks

With the increasing deployment of mobile devices and the advent of broadband wireless access systems such as WiBro, mWiMAX, and HSDPA, an efficient IP mobility management protocol becomes one of the most important technical issues for the successful deployment of the broadband wireless data networking service. IETF has proposed the Mobile IPv6 as the basic mobility management protocol for IPv6 networks. To enhance the performance of the basic MIPv6, researchers have been actively working on HMIPv6 and FMIPv6 protocols. In this paper, we propose a new mobility management protocol, HIMIPv6 (Highly Integrated MIPv6), which tightly integrates the hierarchical mobility management mechanism of the HMIPv6 and the proactive handover support of the FMIPv6 to enhance the handover performance especially for the cellular networking environment with high frequent handover activities. We have performed extensive simulation study using ns2 and the results show that the proposed HIMIPv6 outperforms FMIPv6 and HMIPv6. There is no packet loss and consequent service interruption caused by IP handover in HIMIP.

A mobility-based load control scheme in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 networks

By introducing a mobility anchor point (MAP), Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) reduces the signaling overhead and handoff latency associated with Mobile IPv6. In this paper, we propose a mobility-based load control (MLC) scheme, which mitigates the burden of the MAP in fully distributed and adaptive manners. The MLC scheme combines two algorithms: a threshold-based admission control algorithm and a session-to-mobility ratio (SMR)-based replacement algorithm. The threshold-based admission control algorithm gives higher priority to ongoing mobile nodes (MNs) than new MNs, by blocking new MNs when the number of MNs being serviced by the MAP is greater than a predetermined threshold. On the other hand, the SMR-based replacement algorithm achieves efficient MAP load distribution by considering MNs' traffic and mobility patterns. We analyze the MLC scheme using the continuous time Markov chain in terms of the new MN blocking probability, ongoing MN dropping probability, and binding update cost. Also, the MAP processing latency is evaluated based on the M/G/1 queueing model. Analytical and simulation results demonstrate that the MLC scheme outperforms other schemes and thus it is a viable solution for scalable HMIPv6 networks.

Mobility-Aware RSVP: A framework for improving the performance of multimedia services over wireless IP-based mobile networks

This paper proposes the Mobility-Aware Resource Reservation Protocol (MARSVP) in which mobility and QoS signaling are performed as a single functional block. The key concept of MARSVP is to convey mobility-specific information (binding updates and their associated acknowledgments) by using newly defined RSVP objects embedded in existing RSVP messages. An appealing feature of MARSVP is that it adheres to the current RSVP standard (RFC 2205) and thus requires minimal changes to end nodes without affecting any of the conventional RSVP routers in between. The proposed mechanism is evaluated using a simulation model for application-level performance and an analytical model for network-level signaling cost. Simulation results indicate a 27.9% improvement in QoS interruption when using Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6), 12.5% when using Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), and no improvement when using Fast Handovers for MIPv6 (FMIPv6). On the network-level, signaling cost savings of 9.4% and 11.9% are achieved for MIPv6 and HMIPv6, respectively, while FMIPv6 achieves savings of 17.9% when using Voice-over-IP traffic and 26.7% for Video-over-IP traffic. The results of the conducted studies indicate MARSVP’s superiority to conventional RSVP when deployed over wireless networks.

Hierarchical mobility management for fast handoff and load distribution in IPv6 networks

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) has been proposed by the Internet engineering task force (IETF) to compensate for such problems as handover latency and signalling overhead when employing Mobile I...

Algorithm of mobility anchor point selection in hierarchical mobile IPv6

To improve the performance of Mobility Anchor Point(MAP) selection algorithm for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6(HMIPv6),a novel algorithm supporting load sharing was proposed.The algorithm utilized MAP's preference value to characterize the load on that MAP,introduced sharing threshold to judge whether the MAP called "quasi-MAP" had overloaded,and adjusted the selection policy dynamically by the judgment.It is easy to implement.Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm reduces protocol cost greatly and has a good effect on load sharing.

A Light-Weight Secure Key Setup and Signaling Architecture for Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless mesh network (WMN) is advocated as the major supporting technology for next generation wireless Internet. To support anywhere-anytime communications for highly mobile users, WMN needs to have mobility management architecture that supports frequent handover. Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) is one such architecture that reduces handover signaling, but has inefficient address space utilization, poor key setup procedure, and IPSec-based security. This paper proposes a secure and light-weight architecture for IPv6-based WMN called secure WMN (SWMN) that is built upon HMIPv6. SWMN allocates address space optimally among the clients and uses a secure procedure for user registration and key setup. It has light-weight and secure mobility management mechanism. A simple analysis is also presented to compare SWMN with HMIPv6.

A Distributed Network Mobility Management Scheme for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Networks

Route optimization for network mobility is a key technique for providing a node in a mobile network (Mobile Network Node or MNN) with high quality broadband communications. Many schemes adding route optimization function to Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support protocol, the standardized network mobility management protocol from the IETF nemo working group, have already been proposed in recent years. One such scheme, a scheme using Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) aims to overcome micromobility management issues as well by applying a mechanism based on HMIPv6. The traditional scheme, however, suffers from a significant number of signaling messages as the number of MNNs and/or the number of their Correspondent Nodes (CNs) increase, because many messages notifying the MNNs' Home Agents (HA MNN S) and the CNs of the mobile network's movement are generated simultaneously each time the mobile network moves to the domain of another micromobility management router (Mobility Anchor Point or MAP). This paper proposes a scheme to overcome this problem. Our scheme reduces the number of signaling messages generated at the same time by managing the mobility of MNNs using multiple MAPs distributed within a network for load sharing. The results of simulation experiments show that our scheme works efficiently compared to the traditional scheme when a mobile network has many MNNs and/or these MNNs communicate with many CNs.

Performance Analysis of Hierarchical Mobile IPv6: Does it Improve Mobile IPv6 in Terms of Handover Speed?

There has been a rapid growth in the need to support mobile nodes in IPv6-based networks. IETF has completed to standardize Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) for supporting IPv6 mobility. Even though existing literatures have asserted that HMIPv6 generally improves MIPv6 in terms of handover speed, they do not carefully consider the details of the whole handover procedures. In this paper, based on the current IETF standards of both MIPv6 and HMIPv6, we conduct a comprehensive study of all IP-level handover procedures: movement detection, duplicate address detection, and location registration. Based on this study, we provide a mathematical analysis on MIPv6 and HMIPv6 performance in terms of handover speed. From the analysis, we reveal that the average HMIPv6 handover latency is not always lower than the average MIPv6 handover latency. Furthermore, even the intra-domain handover latency of HMIPv6 is not reduced much compared with MIPv6 handover latency. A finding of our analysis is that optimization techniques for movement detection and duplicate address detection are essential to shortening HMIPv6 handover latency and increasing the benefit of HMIPv6.

Simplified fast handover in mobile IPv6 networks

The Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) protocol provides seamless handover; it uses anticipation based on layer 2 trigger information of the mobile node (MN) to obtain a new care-of address at the new link while still connected to the previous link, thus reducing handover delay. A bidirectional tunnel is then established between access routers to minimize packet loss during the handover. However, this method incurs higher signaling costs compared with the standard Mobile IPv6 protocol. In many cases, the mobile node cannot complete the fast handover in predictive mode due to lack of time, especially with high-speed movement of the mobile node. This paper proposes an enhancement to the FMIPv6, the Simplified Fast Handover in Mobile IPv6 Networks (SFMIPv6), which significantly reduces the anticipation time of the fast handover and thereby increases the probability that the protocol can perform the fast handover in predictive mode. In this paper, we also present performance evaluations in terms of the influence of two factors, the break-down point and the velocity of the MN, using evaluation models. The numerical results prove that the network performance of the proposed protocol is effectively improved compared to the original protocols, the FMIPv6 and Fast Handover Support in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (F-HMIPv6). Moreover, the results show that the proposed protocol could appropriately operate with high-speed mobile node movement.

Evaluating the Performance of Fast Handover for Hierarchical MIPv6 in Cellular Networks

Next-Generation Wireless Networks (NGWNs) present an all-IP-based architecture integrating existing cellular networks with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs), ad hoc networks, Bluetooth, etc. This makes mobility management an important issue for users roaming among these networks/systems. On one hand, intelligent schemes need to be devised to empower mobile users to benefit from the IP-based technology. On the other hand, new solutions are required to take into account global roaming among various radio access technologies and support of real-time multimedia services. This paper presents a comprehensive performance analysis of Fast handover for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (F-HMIPv6) using the fluid-flow and randomwalk mobility models. Location update cost, packet delivery cost and total cost functions are formulated based on the proposed analytical models. We investigate the impact of several wireless system factors such as user velocity, user density, mobility domain size, session-to-mobility ratio on these costs, and present some numerical results.

HMIPv6 네트워크에서 자원예약 시그널링 지연을 줄이기 위한 크로스오버 노드 발견 및 지역적 자원 갱신 방안

이동 네트워크 환경에서 MN(Mobile Node)의 핸드오버 후 새로운 경로 상에 자원을 예약할 때 시그널링 지연을 최소화하기 위해서는 이전 경로와 새로운 경로가 만나는 지점에 있는 노드인 크로스오버 노드(Crossover Node:CRN)를 발견하는 것이 중요하다. 일반적으로 크로스오버 노드의 발견은 MN과 CN(Correspondent Node)간 설립된 종단간 SID(Session ID)를 주요키로 사용하여 이루어지지만, HMIPv6(Hierarchical Mobile IPv6) 네트워크에서 MAP(Mobility Anchor Point)과 HA(Home Agent)간 군집(Aggregate) 세션 단위로 자원예약을 하는 경우에는 이와 같은 일반적인 방법의 적용이 어렵다. 군집 예약을 할 때에는 종단간 SID와는 별도로 군집 SID를 사용하는데, MN의 핸드오버 후 이전 MAP과 HA간 설립된 세션의 군집 SID가 새로운 MAP과 HA간 설립된 세션의 군집 SID와 달라서 SID를 이용하여 크로스오버 노드를 발견할 수 없기 때문이다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 HMIPv6 네트워크에서 차세대 네트워크 시그널링 프로토콜인 NSIS(Next Step in Signaling)를 이용하여 자원을 예약하는 경우 군집 예약이 이루어진 MAP과 HA간 터널상에서 크로스오버 노드를 발견하고, 크로스오버 노드를 발견한 즉시, 군집 예약된 자원의 갱신이 지역적으로 이루어지도록 하는 방안을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해, 시그널링 메시지가 항상 터널의 끝 노드까지 전달되는 기존 방안에 비해 제안하는 방안이 자원 예약을 위한 시그널링 지연을 단축시키고, 핸드오버 동안의 평균 처리율을 향상시킴을 알 수 있었다. In order to minimize the signaling delay for a resource reservation on the new routing path after the handover of Mobile Node(MN) is completed, it is important to discover the crossover node where the old and new routing paths meet. With the 크로스오버 노드 being found, the signaling messages only need to be transferred on the changed part of the end-to-end path. The crossover node is generally discovered using the end-to-end Session ID(SID) of the established session between MN and Correspondent Node(CN). However, in the Hierarchical Mobile IPv6(HMIPv6) network, if the Mobile Anchor Point (MAP) reserves the resource by aggregate with the Home Agent(HA), the crossover node discovery cannot be performed in the general way since the aggregate SID that has established between the previous MAP and HA is different from the that of the current MAP and HA after MN's handover. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to discover the crossover node within the tunnel between the MAP and the HA in an HMIPv6 network, assuming that the Next Steps in Signaling(NSIS) is deployed for the resource reservation and the aggregate reservation is applied over the MAP and HA tunnel. The local repair required for the change of path is performed upon the crossover node discovery. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme reduces the signaling delay for the reservation and outperforms the existing scheme with respect to throughput during the handover.

FI-Based Local Group Key Generation/Distribution for Mobile Multicast in a Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Network

In order to securely transmit multicast data packets in a mobile environment where frequent join/leave events are a characteristic of the environment, there is a need for a new secure and efficient group key management solution. We propose a secure group key generation/distribution solution providing scalability and reliability. Using this solution, when a mobile node, which is in a multicast session, enters a new domain, the agent of the domain joins the multicast session and coordinates its data packets with the mobile node. The agent encrypts and transmits subsequent data packets to the mobile node, using a local one-time pad key. This key is generated with FI sequences, enabling the mobile node to regenerate the same data packet, based on the information sent by the agent. Our performance analysis demonstrates that the proposed solution can significantly reduce the number of key generations and distributions, when it is applied to the hierarchical mobile IPv6 network.

Hierarchical mobility management for fast handoff and load distribution in IPv6 networks

AbstractHierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) has been proposed by the Internet engineering task force (IETF) to compensate for such problems as handover latency and signalling overhead when employing Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). HMIPv6 supports micro‐mobility within a domain and introduces a new entity, namely mobility anchor point (MAP) as a local home agent (HA). However, HMIPv6 has caused load concentration at a particular MAP and longer handover latency when an inter‐domain handover occurs. In order to solve such problems, this paper establishes a virtual domain (VD) of a higher layer MAP and proposes a MAP changing scheme. The MAP changing scheme enables complete handover by using binding‐update of the on‐link care of address (LCoA) only when inter‐domain handover occurs. In addition, the concentrated load of a particular MAP is distributed as well. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.