Handover management for mobile nodes in IPv6 networks

We analyze IPv6 handover over wireless LAN. Mobile IPv6 is designed to manage mobile nodes' movements between wireless IPv6 networks. Nevertheless, the active communications of a mobile node are interrupted until the handover completes. Therefore, several extensions to Mobile IPv6 have been proposed to reduce the handover latency and the number of lost packets. We describe two of them, hierarchical Mobile IPv6, which manages local movements into a domain, and fast handover protocol, which allows the use of layer 2 triggers to anticipate the handover. We expose the specific handover algorithms proposed by all these methods. We also evaluate the handover latency over IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN. We compare the layer 2 and layer 3 handover latency in the Mobile IPv6 case in order to show the saving of time expected by using anticipation. We conclude by showing how to adapt the IEEE 802.11b control frames to set up such anticipation.     

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.     

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.

A Low Latency Handoff Algorithm for Voice over IP Traffics in the Next Generation Packet-Based Cellular Networks: Cellular Mobile IPv6

In the mobile communication environments, Mobile IP is defined to provide users roaming everywhere and transmit information freely. It integrates communication and network systems into Internet. The Mobile IPv6 concepts are similar to Mobile IP, and some new functions of IPv6 bring new features and schemes for mobility support. Two major problems in mobile environments are packet loss and handoff. To solve those problems, a mobile management scheme – the cellular mobile IPv6 (CMIv6) is proposed. Our approach isbased on the Internet Protocol version 6 and is compatible with the Mobile IPv6 standard. Besides, it also combines with the cellular technologies which is an inevitable architecture for the future Personal Communication Service system (PCS). In this paper, {Cellular Mobile IPv6 (CMIv6)}, a new solutionmigrated from Mobile IPv6, is proposed for mobile nodes moving among small wireless cells at high speed. This is important for future mobile communication trends. CMIv6 can solve the problems of communication break off within smaller cellular coverage during high-speed movement when packet-switched data or the real-time voice messages are transmitted. Voice over IP (VoIP) packets were chosen to verify this system. The G.723.1 Codec scheme was selected because it has better jitter resistance than GSM and G729 in a packet-based cellular network. Simulation results using OPNET show smooth and non-breaking handoffs during high-speed movement.     

一种新的基于移动IPv6的快速切换方案

基本的移动IPv6（MIPv6）切换延迟非常大,不能满足实时业务的要求。本文基于对MIPv6的切换时延的分析,提出了一种IEEE802．11无线局域网环境下MIPv6的低时延切换方法,该方法通过结合使用连接触发器和快速路由器公告,并通过IP地址与MAC地址的映射机制来优化切换过程。仿真结果表明,该方法能够有效降低节点切换过程的时延,同时其性能优于以往相关的工作。     

一种移动IPv6地址隐私性解决方法

论文主要介绍了移动IPv6的地址隐私性问题,提出了一种移动IPv6的简单隐私性扩展解决方法,这种方法可以很好地防止窃听者通过家乡地址追踪移动节点,增强了移动IPv6的通信安全性。     

乒乓切换在移动IPv6扩展协议中的性能分析

 综合评价了多种移动IPv6扩展协议在基于端到端的TCP协议L3层的切换性能,模拟仿真了乒乓切换在MIPv6、FMIPv6、HMIPv6和FHMIPv6中的时延、吞吐量和丢包现象,提出了一种优化的FHMIPv6方案.该方案通过定义新的Hop-by－Hop 选项报头TM、 PCoA表和双向隧道表,实现MN的快速、平滑切换,比FHMIPv6进一步减少了时延,提高了吞吐量,降低了丢包率.     

基于特征投影的移动IPv6快速切换方法

研究了移动IPv6协议中的越区切换问题,提出了一种基于特征投影的移动IPv6快速切换方法。该方法通过构造先验切换经验与小区覆盖范围的映射关系来协助移动接入网关对切换目的地进行预测。仿真结果表明,文中方法能够获得比FPMIPv6更小的切换延迟,并具有较好的鲁棒性。     

利用上下文转移实现移动IPv6上的IMS无缝切换

Mobility support for the next generation IPv6 networks has been one of the recent research issues due to the growing demand for wireless services over internet. In the other hand, 3GPP has introduced IP Multimedia Subsystem as the next generation IP based infrastructure for wireless and wired multimedia services. In this paper we present two context transfer mechanisms based on predictive and reactive schemes, to support seamless handover in IMS over Mobile IPv6. Those schemes reduce handover latency by transferring appropriate session ＇information between the old and the new access networks. Moreover, we present two methods for QoS parameters negotiations to preserve service quality along the mobile user movement path. The performances of the proposed mechanisms are evaluated by simulations.     

Improving Mobile IPv6 handover and authentication in wireless network with E‐HCF

Mobile IP allows a mobile node to maintain a continuous connectivity to the Internet when moving from one access point to another. However, due to the link switching delay and to Mobile IP handover operations, packets designated to mobile nodes can be delayed or lost during the handover period. Moreover, every time a new attach point is confirmed, the mobile node, its home agent and its corresponding node must be authenticated mutually. This paper presents a new control function called Extended Handover Control Function (E‐HCF) in order to improve handover performance and authentication in the context of Mobile IPv6 over wireless networks. With an analytical model and some OPNET simulations, we show in this paper that our solution allows provision of low latency, low packet loss and mutual authentication to the standard handover of Mobile IPv6. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Seamless handover support over heterogeneous networks using FMIPv6 with definitive L2 triggers

Various wireless communication systems have been developed and will be integrated into an IP-based network to offer end users the Internet access anytime and anywhere. In heterogeneous multi-access networks, one of main issues is to manage nodes’ mobility with session continuity and minimal handover latency. In order to support the mobility of mobile nodes, MIPv6 has been proposed by IETF. Even though MIPv6 provides a solution to handling nodes’ mobility in IPv6 networks, there is a significant problem due to its inability to support a seamless handover caused by long latency and high packet losses during a handover. FMIPv6 has been proposed to reduce MIPv6 handover latency by using an address pre- configuration method with the aid of L2 triggers. Current research defines a general L2 trigger model for seamless handover operation, but it does not address the exact timing and definitive criteria of L2 triggers which causes a significant effect on the handover performance of FMIPv6. This paper considers the available timing and accurate criteria of L2 triggers. With the definitive L2 triggers, we present a practical handover scenario to integrate L2 and L3 layers for low handover latency and low number of packet losses during a handover. We also study the impact of definitive L2 triggers on the handover performance of the FMIPv6 protocol in real testbeds and prove that the FMIPv6 protocol performs its handover operation prior to the L2 handover and obtains a seamless handover.     

Fast Handover Mechanism for Seamless Multicasting Services in Mobile IPv6 Wireless Networks

This paper proposes a fast handover mechanism to provide a seamless multicast service for Mobile IPv6 hosts. With the proposed Fast handover based on a Mobile IP-Multi casting (FMIP-M) protocol, the selection of a new multicast service method, service preparation, and initialization procedures are all performed during the fast handover period, thereby enabling a reliable and efficient multicast service. When mobile hosts move to other networks, they can encounter data loss, out-of-synch problems for multicast data, and multicast service exchange latency. Therefore, the proposed FMIP-M allows the new access router to select a suitable multicast service method according to the multicast service-related network conditions and supports a reliable multicast transmission by compensating for data losses from the previous access router. An analysis is conducted of the overheads associated with a fast multicast handover, including the signaling cost and multicast packet-forwarding cost, where the costs are formulated based on timing diagrams, and compared with a fast handover using Mobile IPv6. The performance analysis and numerical results confirm that the proposed FMIP-M provides a fast multicast handover and reliable service with a relatively small signaling cost and packet-delivery cost.     

新一代互联网移动管理机制研究

 传统互联网以"固定、有线"为主的连通方式,难以适应新的无线/移动网络的发展需求.本文提出了一种新一代互联网移动管理机制——标识分离映射机制ISMS,详细介绍了ISMS的基本理论和协议流程,并与移动IPv6协议进行了性能分析和对比.ISMS是一种基于网络的移动管理机制,其切换管理和位置管理均由网络完成,能够满足新一代互联网移动管理机制在快速切换、路由优化、可扩展、可控可管、保护位置隐私、安全性和降低无线链路开销等方面的需求.理论分析表明ISMS的网络层面平均切换时延远小于移动IPv6的平均切换时延,能够有效支持绝大部分实时应用.原型系统的实现和验证进一步说明了ISMS的可行性和有效性.     

A forward fast media independent handover control scheme for Proxy Mobile IPv6 (FFMIH-PMIPv6) over heterogeneous wireless mobile network

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is a networked-based handover protocol for the IP layer, i.e., the layer 3 mobility management protocol. In this work, we integrate fast handover and IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) Services with PMIPv6 to improve the handover performance over the heterogeneous wireless network environment. Since it may have multiple candidate destination networks to which a Mobile Node can select for handover, it needs to consider not only the signal strength but also the corresponding networking situation for the proper selection of the next network. To reduce the packet loss situation, the multicast mechanism is adopted to forward packets to these candidate destination networks during the handover processing period. In this work, a Forward Fast Media Independent Handover Control Scheme for Proxy Mobile IPv6 (FFMIH-PMIPv6) is proposed based on the aforementioned concerns. Through the simulations for performance analysis, it shows that the proposed FFMIH-PMIPv6 can have better handover performance in terms of handover latency, packet loss rate and throughput.     

浅析移动IPv6协议及其测试技术

IPv6协议即将成为Intemet的标准,在任何协议的研究开发中,测试工作都是很重要的.移动IPv6作为IPv6协议族中非常重要的一个协议,对基本的IPv6协议运作方式有较大的改变,对它的一致性测试和互操作性测试将有助于协议的完善.本文在介绍移动IPv6协议的基础上,分析了移动IPv6协议的测试方法、测试技术和研究方向.     

A Robust Seamless Handover Scheme for the Support of Multimedia Services in Heterogeneous Emerging Wireless Networks

With the rapid development of wireless technologies and numerous types of mobile devices, the need to support seamless multimedia services in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MUC) is growing. To support the seamless handover, several mobility protocols such as Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) (Johnson et al., Mobility Support in IPv6, IETF, RFC 3775, 2004) and fast handover for the MIPv6 (FMIPv6) (Koodli et al. Past handovers for mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6), IETF, RFC 4068, 2005) were developed. However, MIPv6 depreciates the Quality-of-Service (QoS) especially in multimedia service applications because of the long handover latency and packet loss problem. To solve these problems in the MIPv6, FMIPv6 is proposed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). However, FMIPv6 is not robust for the multimedia services in heterogeneous emerging wireless networks when the MN may move to another visited network in contrast with its anticipation. In MUC, the possibility of service failure is more increased because mobile users can frequently change the access networks according to their mobility in heterogeneous wireless access networks such as 3Generation (3G), Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) and Bluetooth co-existed. In this paper, we propose a robust seamless handover scheme for the multimedia services in heterogeneous emerging wireless networks. The proposed scheme reduces the handover latency and handover initiation time when handover may fail through the management of tentative Care-of Addresses (CoAs) that does not require Duplicate Address Detection (DAD). Through performance evaluation, we show that our scheme provides more robust handover mechanism than other scheme such as FMIPv6 for the multimedia services in heterogeneous emerging wireless networks.     

移动IPv6的安全性探讨

移动IP(Mobile IP)多应用于无线环境,除了要面对所有无线网络所固有的安全威胁外,还需要处理由移动性引入的新的安全问题,这必然导致移动IP相对于有线Internet显得更加脆弱。论文从移动IPv6的基本原理入手,分析移动IPv6存在的安全隐患及几种典型的攻击方法,并对其安全性进行了简单的探讨。     

改进的移动IPv6协议分析

在IPv4基础上发展起来的移动IPv6，比移动IPv4有很多优势，功能更为强大,更安全，必将在未来的移动互联领域发挥更大作用。但是当移动节点频繁移动时．标准移动IPv6协议会在网络中产生大量的注册报文，造成较大的注册延时,降低网络性能，因此有必要加以改进。本文介绍了两种改进的移动IPv6协议，并进行了详细分析。     

移动IPv6在无线局域网中的实现

介绍了移动IPv6的工作机制,提出一个移动IPv6和无线局域网(WLAN)集成的设计方案,以实现移动终端在无线局域网之间无缝切换,并建立实际的实验环境对移动IPv6进行测试.     

快速层次移动IPv6切换性能分析及优化

移动IPv6技术中切换延时对实时应用影响很大。介绍了目前移动IPv6常用的快速移动和层次移动切换技术,描述其切换原理和过程。结合2种技术的优缺点,给出了一种新的快速层次移动IPv6的切换方案。利用NS-2对这3种切换方法进行仿真得到的结果表明,快速层次移动IPv6切换延时要小于快速移动IPv6和层次移动IPv6的切换延时,且降低了数据包丢失率,提高了网络的性能。