移动IPv6分层管理费用的分析与自适应优化

为综合优化分层域内外以网络传输花费和带宽占用为代表的通信管理费用,论文对实施分层移动IPv6前后的费用变化进行了理论分析,得出了判决是否适宜使用分层移动管理的准则,并在此基础上提出一种允许移动节点动态地根据切换频度和流量强度等参数选择适宜的移动管理机制的自适应优化方案.仿真结果表明该方案能获得比静止使用某种移动管理机制更好的资源使用效率,可望具有较好的实际应用价值.     

Mobility protocols and RSVP performance in wireless IPv6 networks: shortcomings and solutions

Resource reservation protocol (RSVP) is a network‐control protocol used to guarantee Quality‐of‐Service (QoS) requirements for real‐time applications such as Voice‐over‐IP (VoIP) or Video‐over‐IP (VIP). However, RSVP was designed for end‐systems whose IP addresses do not change. Once mobility of an end‐system is allowed, the dynamically changing mobile IP address inevitably impacts on RSVP performance. Our study aims to first quantify the significance of this impact, and then propose a modified RSVP mechanism that provides improved performance during handoffs. Our simulations reveal that the deployment of standard RSVP over Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) does not yield a satisfactory result, particularly in the case of VIP traffic. Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) was found to be providing the best performance in all tested scenarios, followed by Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) with a single exception: during low handoff rates with VoIP traffic, MIPv6 outperformed HMIPv6. We then designed a new RSVP mechanism, and tested it against standard RSVP. We found that the proposed approach provides a significant improvement of 54.1% in the Total Interruption in QoS (TI_QoS) when deployed over a MIPv6 wireless network. For HMIPv6, performance depended primarily on the number of hierarchical levels in the network, with no improvement in TI_QoS for single‐level hierarchy and up to 37% for a 5‐level hierarchy. FMIPv6 on the other hand, provided no room for improvement due to pre‐handoff signaling and the tunneling mechanism used to ensure a mobile node (MN)'s connectivity during a handoff, regardless of the RSVP mechanism used. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A cross‐layer partner‐based fast handoff mechanism for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

In wireless/mobile networks, users freely and frequently change their access points (APs) while they are communicating with other users. To support the mobility of mobile nodes (MNs), Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) is used to inform the information of MN's home address and current care‐of‐address (CoA) to its home agent. MIPv6 suffers from a long delay latency and high packet losses (PLs) because MIPv6 does not support micromobility. A Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) is proposed which provides micromobility and macromobility to reduce handoff latency (HL) by employing a hierarchical network structure. In this paper, we propose a cross‐layer partner‐based fast handoff mechanism based on HMIPv6, called the PHMIPv6 protocol. Our PHMIPv6 protocol is a cross‐layer, layer‐2 + layer‐3, and cooperative approach. A cooperative node, called a partner node (PN), is adopted in the PHMIPv6 protocol. A new layer‐2 trigger scheme used in the PHMIPv6 protocol accurately predicts the next AP and then invites a cooperative PN in the area of the next AP. With the cooperation of the PN, the CoA can be pre‐acquired and duplicate address detection operation can be pre‐executed by the PN before the MN initializes the handoff request. The PHMIPv6 protocol significantly reduces the handoff delay time and PLs. In the mathematical analysis, we verified that our PHMIPv6 protocol offers a better HL than the MIPv6, HMIPv6, and SHMIPv6 protocols. Finally, the experimental results also illustrate that the PHMIPv6 protocol actually achieves performance improvements in the handoff delay time, PL rate, and handoff delay jitter. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

DMAP: integrated mobility and service management in mobile IPv6 systems

Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) is a work in progress IETF standard for enabling mobility in IPv6 networks and is expected to have wide deployment. We investigate an integrated mobility and service management scheme based on MIPv6 with the goal to minimize the overall network signaling cost in MIPv6 systems for serving mobility and service management related operations. Our design extends IETF work-in-progress Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) with the notion of dynamic mobility anchor points (DMAPs) for each mobile node (MN) instead of static ones for all MNs. These DMAPs are access routers chosen by individual MNs to act as a regional router to reduce the signaling overhead for intra-regional movements. The DMAP domain size, i.e., the number of subnets covered by a DMAP, is based on the MN’s mobility and service characteristics. Under our DMAP protocol, a MN interacts with its home agent and application servers as in the MIPv6 protocol, but optimally determines when and where to launch a DMAP to minimize the network cost in serving the user’s mobility and service management operations. We demonstrate that our DMAP protocol for integrated mobility and service management yields significantly improved performance over basic MIPv6 and HMIPv6.     

A Low Cost Route Optimization Scheme for Cluster-Based Proxy MIPv6 Protocol

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is a network based mobility protocol which has been designed to relieve the mobile nodes (MNs) from participating in the mobility process and to reduce the long handoff latency of the MIPv6 protocol. However, PMIPv6 incurs a long communication path due to the triangle routing problem, in which, all packets sent by MNs are obligated to pass through the local mobility anchor. Several solutions have been proposed to mitigate this issue. However, they still incur high signaling overhead to recover the Route Optimization (RO) status after handoff. In this paper, we propose a Cluster-Based RO (CBRO) scheme for the clustered architecture of the PMIPv6, in which, the Mobile Access Gateways (MAGs) are grouped into clusters with a distinguished Head MAG (HMAG) for each. In the proposed CBRO, the RO process is relied on the HMAGs to reduce the handoff latency while achieving a fast recovery of the optimized path after handoff. The proposed CBRO is evaluated analytically and compared with the basic PMIP and the current RO schemes. The obtained numerical results have shown that the proposed CBRO outperforms all other schemes in terms of signaling cost required to recover the RO status after handoff and the total cost performance metrics.     

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.     

Optimization of Mobile IPv6-Based Handovers to Support VoIP Services in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks

The support of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in next-generation wireless systems requires the coupling of mobility with quality of service. The mobile node can experience disruptions or even intermittent disconnections of an ongoing real-time session due to handovers. The duration of such interruptions is called disruption time or handover delay and can heavily affect user satisfaction. Therefore, this delay needs to be minimized to provide good-quality VoIP services. In this paper, the focus is on the network layer mobility, specifically on mobile Internet Protocols (MIPs), since they are natural candidates for providing mobility at layer 3. Using analytical models, the authors evaluate MIPv4, MIPv6, fast MIPv6 (FMIPv6), and hierarchical MIPv6 (HMIPv6) and compare their performances in terms of handover delay for VoIP services. To optimize the handover delay, the authors propose to use the adaptive retransmission timer described in this paper. The results obtained using the adaptive timer technique show that for a 3% frame error rate and a 128-kb/s channel, the handoff delay is about 0.075 s (predictive) and 0.051 s (reactive) for FMIPv6. It is around 0.047 s [intra-mobile anchor point (MAP)] and 1.47 s (inter-MAP) for HMIPv6, around 1 s for MIPv6, and 0.26 s for MIPv4     

用于WLAN的低时延混合MIPv6切换机制

由于传统的WLAN切换时延较大。因此不适用于时延敏感业务。借鉴IETF提高切换速度的两种协议——FMIPv6、HMIPv6，提出一种提高切换速度的混合MIPv6机制。混合MIPv6机制采用分层管理，在二层进行切换之前提前配置地址，避免了三层切换需要的切换时延，减小了发送绑定更新消息的数量和距离，从而大大提高了WLAN的切换速度，为WLAN增值业务的发展提供了条件。     

Fast and reliable handoff for vehicular networks

A layer-3 mobility management scheme for an all-IP Wireless Access Network (WAN), and in particular for vehicular networks, is developed in this paper. The proposed method enables fast and reliable handoff. This feature is extremely important for high speed vehicular networks. Since vehicles are characterized by likely-predictable path, as well as very high speed, handoff events can and should be predicted in order to achieve fast and reliable handoff. As it is shown in this study, the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the packet loss ratio caused by frequent handoff events experienced by high speed vehicles. This scheme is topology-independent in the sense that it does not assume any network topology. The key idea is to use a topology-learning algorithm that enables to perform localized mobility management, by efficiently re-selecting a Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) node. The goal of the proposed scheme is to maintain a continues connection subject to user-dependent delay constraints, while minimizing the signaling cost and packet loss ratio associated with handoff events. This scheme is consistent with the existing mobility management schemes currently used in Mobile IP (MIP) and cellular networks, and it fits into the Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) scheme defined in Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) for integrating mobile terminals with the Internet wired backbone.     

Integrating Mobile Ad Hoc Network to the Internet

A novel scheme is presented to integrate mobile ad hoc networks （MANETs） with the lnternet and support mobility across wireless local area networks （WLANs） and MANETs. The mobile nodes, connected as a MANET, employ the optimize d link state routing （OLSR） protocol for routing within the MANET. Mobility management across WLANs and MANETs is achieved through the hierarchical mobile IPv6 （HMIPv6） protocol. The performance is evaluated on a HMIPv6 based test-bed composed of WLANs and MANETs. The efficiency gain obtained from using HMIPv6 in such a hybrid network is investigated. The investigation result shows that the use of HMIPv6 can achieve up to 27% gain on reducing the handoff latency when a mobile roams within a domain. Concerning the reduction of the signaling load on the lnternet, the use of HMIPv6 can achieve at least a 54% gain and converges to 69%.     

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.

Design and Analysis of Optimal Multi-Level Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Networks

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) is an enhanced version of Mobile IPv6 designed to reduce signaling overhead and to support seamless handoff in IP-based wireless/mobile networks. To support more scalable services, HMIPv6 networks can be organized as the form of a multi-level hierarchy architecture (i.e., tree structure). However, since multi-level HMIPv6 networks incur additional packet processing overhead at multiple mobility agents, it is important to find the optimal hierarchy level to minimize the total cost, which consists of the location update cost and the packet delivery cost. In this paper, we investigate this problem, namely the design of an optimal multi-level HMIPv6 (OM-HMIPv6) network. To accomplish this, we design a function to represent the location update cost and the packet delivery cost in multi-level HMIPv6 networks. Based on these formulated cost functions, we calculate the optimal hierarchy level in multi-level HMIPv6 networks, in order to minimize the total cost. In addition, we investigate the effects of the session-to-mobility ratio (SMR) on the total cost and the optimal hierarchy. The numerical results, which show various relationships among the network size, optimal hierarchy, and SMR, can be utilized to design an optimal HMIPv6 network. In addition, the analytical results are validated by comprehensive simulations. Sangheon Pack received his B.S. (2000, magna cum laude) and Ph.D. (2005) degrees from Seoul National University, both in computer engineering. He is a post doctor fellow in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Seoul National University, Korea. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. During 2002–2005, he was a recipient of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) Computer Science and Information Technology Scholarship. He has been also a member of Samsung Frontier Membership (SFM) from 1999. He received a student travel grant award for the IFIP Personal Wireless Conference (PWC) 2003. He was a visiting researcher to Fraunhofer FOKUS, German in 2003. His research interests include mobility management, wireless multimedia transmission, and QoS provision issues in the next-generation wireless/mobile networks. Yanghee Choi received B.S. in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, M.S. in electrical engineering from Korea advanced Institute of Science, and Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST) in Paris, in 1975, 1977 and 1984 respectively. Before joining the School of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University in 1991, he has been with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) during 1977–1991, where he served as director of Data Communication Section, and Protocol Engineering Center. He was research student at Centre National d'Etude des Telecommunications (CNET), Issy-les-Moulineaux, during 1981–1984. He was also Visiting Scientist to IBM T.J. Watson Research Center for the year 1988–1989. He is now leading the Multimedia Communications Laboratory in Seoul National University. He is also director of Computer Network Research Center in Institute of Computer Technology (ICT). He was editor-in-chief of Korea Information Science Society journals. He was chairman of the Special Interest Group on Information Networking. He has been associate dean of research affairs at Seoul National University. He was president of Open Systems and Internet Association of Korea. His research interest lies in the field of multimedia systems and high-speed networking. Minji Nam received her B.S. and M.S degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University in 2003 and 2005, respectively. From 2005, she has worked on Portable Internet Development Team for Korea Telecom. Her research interests are mobile networks, portable internet technology (IEEE 802.16) and Mobile IPv6.     

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 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.     

一种新的WLAN环境下移动IPv6的低时延切换方法

提出了一种IEEE 802.11无线局域网环境下移动IPv6的低时延切换方法NDPR.在不依靠链路层触发的条件下,NDPR使用非均匀检测模型来减小切换检测产生的时延,降低了切换检测过程的开销.通过IP地址与MAC地址的映射机制和转交地址的预注册机制,NDPR减小了移动IPv6的移动检测和转交地址配置过程的时延.仿真结果表明,该方法不但能够有效降低节点切换过程的时延,而且其性能优于以往相关的工作.     

Smart Routers for Cross-Layer Integrated Mobility and Service Management in Mobile IPv6 Systems

We propose and analyze a cross-layer integrated mobility and service management scheme called DMAPwSR in Mobile IPv6 environments with the goal to minimize the overall mobility and service management cost for serving mobile users with diverse mobility and service characteristics. The basic idea of DMAPwSR is that each mobile node (MN) can utilize its cross-layer knowledge to choose smart routers to be its dynamic mobility anchor points (DMAPs) to balance the cost associated with mobility services versus packet delivery services. These smart routers are just access routers for MIPv6 systems except that they are capable of processing binding messages from the MN and storing the current location of the MN in the routing table for forwarding service packets destined to the MN. The MN’s DMAP changes dynamically as the MN roams across the MIPv6 network. Furthermore the DMAP service area also changes dynamically reflecting the MN’s mobility and service behaviors dynamically. Unlike previous mobility management protocols such as HMIPv6 that focus only on mobility management, DMAPwSR considers integrated mobility and service management. We develop an analytical model based on stochastic Petri nets to analyze DMAPwSR and compare its performance against MIPv6 and HMIPv6. We validate analytical solutions obtained through extensive simulation including sensitivity analysis of simulation results with respect to the network coverage model, the MN’s residence time distribution and the DMAP service area definition.     

Active overload prevention based adaptive MAP selection in HMIPv6 networks

Multi-level mobile anchor points (MAP) architecture is deployed in large-scale wireless/mobile networks using HMIPv6 to achieve better mobility service, while selecting the most suitable serving MAP for the mobile nodes (MNs) to enhance the whole network performance has been a critical issue. An adaptive MAP selection based on active overload prevention (MAP-AOP) hence is proposed. The MAP periodically evaluates the load status by using dynamic weighted load evaluation algorithm, and then sends the load information to the covered access routers (AR) by using the expanded routing advertisement message in a dynamic manner. Taking achieving the load balancing among the available MAPs, the current serving AR executes the active overload prevention to select MAP candidates for the MN pending a handover, and then adaptively selects an optimal one from the candidates by comprehensively considering the system cost and the average handover latency caused by each candidate. The simulation conducted on the NS-2 platform indicates that MAP-AOP outperforms the comparative MAP selection schemes with the optimized system cost and average handover latency, and better load balancing.     

Cost analysis of mobility protocols

Increasing demand for mobility in wireless data network has given rise to various mobility management schemes. Most of the analysis on mobility protocols used Random Waypoint mobility model However, the analysis done earlier ignored some major costs, resulting in an incomplete estimation and used random waypoint model which fails to represent realistic movement pattern. In this paper, we have developed an analytical cost model considering all possible costs related to mobility management, and have used city section mobility model, a realistic mobility model, to compute the total costs of two mobility protocols: HIMPv6 and SIGMA. We have defined two novel performance metrics, normalized overhead and efficiency, for mobility protocols based on the signaling costs and used them to evaluate the performance of SIGMA and HMIPv6 protocols varying network size, mobility rate and traffic rate. Results show that the total cost of SIGMA is much less than HMIPv6 due to the higher cost of packet tunneling, even though the mobility signaling cost of SIGMA is higher than HMIPv6. Moreover, mobility signaling costs of both the protocols using city model and random waypoint model are found to be much different, demonstrating the fact that random waypoint model cannot be used as an approximation to a realistic scenario. The analytical framework presented in this paper can be used by the network professionals to estimate amount of load on the network due to mobility protocols and compare them based on the proposed performance metrics to select the best protocol.     

An adaptive hierarchical mobile IPv6 using mobility profile

The Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), which is based on the Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6), has been proposed by IETF to reduce registration control signaling. It separates micro‐mobility from macro‐mobility with the help of an intermediate mobility agent, called the mobility anchor point (MAP), and exploits a Mobile Node's (MN's) spatial locality. However, all packets from a Correspondent Node (CN) to an MN are delivered through the MAP. That causes delay in packets delivery and the congestion of packets in the MAP so that it results in deterioration of network capability. To alleviate these problems, we propose a Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 protocol using not only spatial locality but also temporal locality. We introduce a profile for management of these locality information. According to the information in the profile, some packets are directly delivered to an MN, if MN seems to reside for a long time in the current subnet. Also, we introduce a handover scheme with the help of an L2 trigger, so that the proposed scheme takes nearly the same handover delay time as HMIPv6. The other contribution of this paper is to suggest a mathematical modeling and analysis of network traffic costs, MAP processing costs and handover latency for both HMIPv6 and the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

SIP和MIPv6的集成在IMS系统中的应用

MIPv6在IP网络层支持移动性,而SIP一直支持VoIP的应用,是IP多媒体子系统（IMS）的信令协议。为了无缝支持在移动领域中的实时多媒体通信,SIP和MIP的集成显得非常重要。本文通过MIPv6、SIP及SIP和MIPv6的集成,显示出SIP和MIPv6的集成对IMS系统性能的优化,说明了该方案可提供有效的路由,并且可减少切换时延。     

Adaptive Route Optimization in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Networks

By introducing a mobility anchor point (MAP), Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIP6) reduces the signaling overhead and handoff latency associated with Mobile IPv6. However, if a mobile node (MN)'s session activity is high and its mobility is relatively low, HMIPv6 may degrade end-to-end data throughput due to the additional packet tunneling at the MAP. In this paper, we propose an adaptive route optimization (ARO) scheme to improve the throughput performance in HMIPv6 networks. Depending on the measured session-to-mobility ratio (SMR), ARO chooses one of the two different route optimization algorithms adaptively. Specifically, an MN informs a correspondent node (CN) of its on-link care-of address (LCoA) if the CN's SMR is greater than a predefined threshold. If the SMR is equal to or lower than the threshold, the CN is informed with the MN's regional CoA (RCoA). We analyze the performance of ARO in terms of balancing the signaling overhead reduction and the data throughput improvement. We also derive the optimal SMR threshold explicitly to achieve such a balance. Analytical and simulation results demonstrate that ARO is a viable scheme for deployment in HMIPv6 networks.