Proof of certificateless MIP registration protocol based on PCL

Security protocols are the basis of many mobile communication systems, thus it is important to ensure protocol property correct. Using Protocol Composition Logic (PCL), this paper proves a Mobile IP (MIP) registration protocol that is based on certificateless public key signature without pairing between home agent and foreign agent, which minimizes the registration time and cost as well as improves the security compared with the identity-based and certificate-based registration protocol. Analysis and proof shows that the proposed protocol provides users security and authentications, moreover, the anonymity property is proved correct.     

Integrated Mobility Management Methods for Mobile IP and SIP in IP based Wireless Data Networks

With developments in voice over IP (VoIP), IP-based wireless data networks and their application services have received increased attention. While multimedia applications of mobile nodes are served by Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as a signaling protocol, the mobility of mobile nodes may be supported via Mobile IP protocol. For a mobile node that uses both Mobile IP and SIP, there is a severe redundant registration overhead because the mobile node has to make location registration separately to a home agent for Mobile IP and to a home registrar for SIP, respectively. Therefore, we propose two new schemes that integrate mobility management functionality in Mobile IP and SIP. We show performance comparisons among the previous method, which makes separate registration for Mobile IP and SIP without integration, and our two integrated methods. Numerical results show that the proposed methods efficiently reduce the amount of signaling messages and delay time related to the idle handoff and the active handoff.     

Home agent placement and IP address management for integrating WLANs with cellular networks

Seamless roaming between cellular networks (3G or upcoming 4G) and wireless local area networks can be provided using Mobile IP. However, GPRS/UMTS and 802.11-based WLAN networks have no native support for mobile IP. Mobile IP requires the deployment of home agents and a protocol between the mobile nodes, home agent, and corresponding nodes. We address the home agent placement and home address assignment issues for supporting mobile IP for heterogeneous roaming. Placement techniques for mobile IP home agents are presented including dynamic HA assignment in either WLAN or cellular network domains using the diameter mobile IP application. Next, we present several IPv4 home address assignment schemes for mobile nodes visiting in the WLAN domain such as NAT/NAPT traversal, reverse tunneling, and mobile VPNs. It is shown that HA placement and address management are orthogonal, and any combination is possible. Various architectures for both issues are evaluated against the optimal solutions     

Threshold-Based Load Balancing for Multiple Home Agents in Mobile IP Networks

Mobile IP is an extension of the IP protocol, designed to provide seamless connectivity to mobile nodes roaming over the Internet. Under certain conditions of traffic, such as in Mobile IP networks supporting multimedia applications, overhead can cause significant delays at the mobility agents, i.e. foreign and home agents. Some multiple home agents protocol extensions have been proposed to avoid potential bottlenecks in single home agents configurations. Due to the highly unpredictable nature of the IP data traffic, efficient load balancing applied in such schemes is crucial to the overall performance improvement. In this paper, we propose a novel threshold-based dynamic load balancing policy that uses a realistic data-sharing model operational at each home agent. A discrete event computer simulator is developed to study the system performance with the proposed load balancing policy. We also introduce two new policy tuning parameters, the number of information queue slices and the retry latency, by which we control the load balancing benefit. Due to the relatively large number of simulation parameters, results are presented for typical configuration scenarios. In general, in all the results obtained, our threshold-based load balancing policy provides a significant performance improvement. The proposed architecture efficiently uses parallel processing for handling the overhead generated by the load balancing, which results in minimal performance degradation.     

Internet Connectivity for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks

The growing deployment rate of wireless LANs indicates that wireless networking is rapidly becoming a prevalent form of communication. As users become more accustomed to the use of mobile devices, they increasingly want the additional benefit of roaming. The Mobile IP protocol has been developed as a solution for allowing users to roam outside of their home networks while still retaining network connectivity. The problem with this solution, however, is that the deployment of foreign agents is expensive because their coverage areas are limited due to fading and interference. To reduce the number of foreign agents needed while still maintaining the same coverage, ad hoc network functionality can cooperate with Mobile IP such that multihop routes between mobile nodes and foreign agents can be utilized. In this work, we present a method for enabling the cooperation of Mobile IP and the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, such that mobile nodes that are not within direct transmission range of a foreign agent can still obtain Internet connectivity. In addition, we describe how duplicate address detection can be used in these networks to obtain a unique co-located care-of address when a foreign agent is not available.     

Dynamic hierarchical mobility management strategy for mobile IP networks

One of the major challenges for the wireless network design is the efficient mobility management, which can be addressed globally (macromobility) and locally (micromobility). Mobile Internet protocol (IP) is a commonly accepted standard to address global mobility of mobile hosts (MHs). It requires the MHs to register with the home agents (HAs) whenever their care-of addresses change. However, such registrations may cause excessive signaling traffic and long service delay. To solve this problem, the hierarchical mobile IP (HMIP) protocol was proposed to employ the hierarchy of foreign agents (FAs) and the gateway FAs (GFAs) to localize registration operations. However, the system performance is critically affected by the selection of GFAs and their reliability. In this paper, we introduce a novel dynamic hierarchical mobility management strategy for mobile IP networks, in which different hierarchies are dynamically set up for different users and the signaling burden is evenly distributed among the network. To justify the effectiveness of our proposed scheme, we develop an analytical model to evaluate the signaling cost. Our performance analysis shows that the proposed dynamic hierarchical mobility management strategy can significantly reduce the system signaling cost under various scenarios and the system robustness is greatly enhanced. Our analysis also shows that the new scheme can outperform the Internet Engineering Task Force mobile IP hierarchical registration scheme in terms of the overall signaling cost. The more important contribution is the novel analytical approach in evaluating the performance of mobile IP networks.     

改进的移动IP的注册性能分析

根据现有的IETF移动IP规范，当移动节点驻留在远离归属网络的外地网络时，将会产生严重的注册延迟，从而引起严重的包丢失和通信吞吐量的下降。本文利用改进后的移动IP网络结构，引入routing agent，使得大量的当地注册报文只需要在RA上处理即可，从而减少了注册延迟，改善了移动IP的性能。本文对其中的注册代价进行了深入的分析，并与标准移动IP中的注册代价进行了对比。     

P-MIP: Paging Extensions for Mobile IP

As the number of Mobile IP users grows, so will the signalling overhead associated with Internet mobility management in the core IP network. This presents a significant challenge to Mobile IP as the number of mobile devices scale-up. In cellular networks, registration and paging techniques are used to minimize the signalling overhead and optimize the mobility management performance. Currently, Mobile IP supports registration but not paging. In this paper, we argue that Mobile IP should be extended to support paging to improve the scalability of the protocol to handle large populations of mobile devices. To address this, we introduce P-MIP, a set of simple paging extensions for Mobile IP, and discuss the construction of paging areas, movement detection, registration, paging and data handling. We present analysis and simulation results for Mobile IP with and without paging extensions, and show that P-MIP can scale well supporting large numbers of mobile devices with reduced signalling under a wide variety of system conditions.     

A Domain-Based Routing Protocol for SSM Source Mobility in Mobile IPv6 Networks

In Mobile IP, the signaling traffic overhead will be too high since the new Care-of-Address (CoA) of the mobile node (MN) is registered all the way with the home agent (HA) whenever the MN has moved into a new foreign network. To complement Mobile IP in better handling local movement, several IP micro protocols have been proposed. These protocols introduce a hierarchical mobility management scheme, which divides the mobility into micro mobility and macro mobility according to whether the host's movement is intra-domain or inter-domain. Thus, the requirements on performance and flexibility are achieved, especially for frequently moving hosts. This paper introduces a routing protocol for multicast source mobility on the basis of the hierarchical mobile management scheme, which provides a unified global architecture for both uni- and multicast routing in mobile networks. The implementation of multicast services adopts an improved SSM (Source Specific Multicast) model, which combines the advantages of the existing protocols in scalability and mobility transparency. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol has better performance than the existing routing protocols for SSM source mobility.     

Mobile IP

Mobile IP has been designed within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to serve the needs of the burgeoning population of mobile computer users who wish to connect to the Internet and maintain communications as they move from place to place. The basic protocol is described, with details given on the three major component protocols: agent advertisement, registration, and tunneling. Then route optimization procedures are outlined, and further topics of current interest are described. The available tunneling mechanisms are shown, which the home agent uses to forward datagrams from the home network to the mobile computer. Having covered the details of the base mobile IP specification, we then describe further protocol messages which help to decrease the inefficiency associated with inserting the home agent in the routing path of data destined for mobile computers. Finally, we summarize and discuss the current problems facing mobile IP, as well as a few areas of active protocol development     

A Comparison of Performance between Macro-mobility Protocol and Micro-mobility Protocol

1　IntroductionAlthoughthemobileIP protocol[1～3] workswellinthemacromobilitysituation ,someproblemsoccurinthemicromobilitysituation .Therearetwomainconcerns.First,theregistrationdelaycon tributestothehandoffdelay .Thedelayissignifi cantwhenanMNisfarawayfromhomeandcausessignificantpacketdropanddrasticreductionincom municationthroughput.Second ,frequentlocationupdatesincurextensiveoverheadforlocationcachemanagementinrouteoptimizationthatrequiresac curatelocationinformationinordertotunnelIPda…     

An efficient fault-tolerant approach for Mobile IP in wireless systems

This paper presents the fault tolerance of Mobile IP in wireless systems. Mobile IP can support wireless users with continuous network connections while changing locations. It is achieved by allocating a number of mobility agents (foreign agents and home agents) in the architecture of a wireless system. If a failure occurs in a mobility agent, the wireless users located in the coverage area of the faulty mobility agent will lose their network connections. To tolerate the failures of mobility agents, this paper proposes an efficient approach to maintaining the network connections of wireless users without being affected by the failures. Once detecting a failure in a mobility agent, failure-free mobility agents are dynamically selected to be organized as a backup set to take over the faulty mobility agent. Compared to the previous approaches, the proposed approach does not take any actions against failures during the failure-free period. Besides, the hardware redundancy technique is also not used in the proposed approach. The overhead of the proposed approach is analyzed using the M/G/c/c queuing model. The results show that the proposed approach can effectively resolve the fault-tolerant problem of Mobile IP in wireless systems.     

基于身份的移动IP注册协议研究

针对移动IP注册协议中家乡和移动节点过多且复杂的计算问题,提出了一个新的基于身份的密钥分发方案,并在此基础上设计了一种高效的移动IP注册协议。该协议实现了移动IP各个节点间相互认证,其中移动节点与家乡代理之间具有双重认证的特点。双线性对和秘密随机数的选取保证了消息的安全性,消息认证码Mac和数字签名Sig保障了消息的完整性。该协议从整体上减少了计算量,降低了注册延迟率,同时也有效地保证了安全性。安全性分析表明,该方案满足移动IP的安全要求。     

Privacy‐preserving registration protocol for mobile network

In this paper, we propose a novel privacy‐preserving registration protocol that combines the verifier local revocation group signature with mobile IP. The protocol could achieve strong security guarantee, such as user anonymity via a robust temporary identity, local user revocation with untraceability support, and secure key establishment against home server and eavesdroppers. Various kinds of adversary attacks can be prevented by the proposed protocol, especially that deposit‐case attack does not work here. Meanwhile, a concurrent mechanism and a dynamical revocation method are designed to minimize the handover authentication delay and the home registration signals. The theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme could provide high security level besides lightweight computational cost and efficient communication performance. For instance, compared with Yang's scheme, the proposed protocol could decrease the falling speed of handover authentication delay up to about 40% with privacy being preserved. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Low-latency mobile IP handoff for infrastructure-mode wireless LANs

The increasing popularity of IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks (LANs) lends them credibility as a viable alternative to third-generation (3G) wireless technologies. Even though wireless LANs support much higher channel bandwidth than 3G networks, their network-layer handoff latency is still too high to be usable for interactive multimedia applications such as voice over IP or video streaming. Specifically, the peculiarities of commercially available IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN hardware prevent existing mobile Internet protocol (IP) implementations from achieving subsecond Mobile IP handoff latency when the wireless LANs are operating in the infrastructure mode, which is also the prevailing operating mode used in most deployed IEEE 802.11b LANs. In this paper, we propose a low-latency mobile IP handoff scheme that can reduce the handoff latency of infrastructure-mode wireless LANs to less than 100 ms, the fastest known handoff performance for such networks. The proposed scheme overcomes the inability of mobility software to sense the signal strengths of multiple-access points when operating in an infrastructure-mode wireless LAN. It expedites link-layer handoff detection and speeds up network-layer handoff by replaying cached foreign agent advertisements. The proposed scheme strictly adheres to the mobile IP standard specification, and does not require any modifications to existing mobile IP implementations. That is, the proposed mechanism is completely transparent to the existing mobile IP software installed on mobile nodes and wired nodes. As a demonstration of this technology, we show how this low-latency handoff scheme together with a wireless LAN bandwidth guarantee mechanism supports undisrupted playback of remote video streams on mobile stations that are traveling across wireless LAN segments.     

移动IP中的信息安全探讨

目前，移动IP技术的使用越来越普遍，安全性也显得越来越重要。介绍了移动IP和IPSec，讨论了如何实现移动IP和IPSec的集成使得可以为移动IP提供有效的安全服务，给出了移动节点移动到专网(企业网)之外后整个协议套的运行实例，并描述了2种密钥管理协议(SKIP和ISAKMP／Oakley)的作用过程。     

一种新的移动IPv6移动性管理策略

在IETF制定的移动IPv6移动性管理策略中,当移动主机每次从一个子网移动到另一个子网时,都需要对家乡代理和相应的通信主机进行绑定更新,这就导致网络总的绑定和发送代价过高.本文提出了一种新的移动性管理策略,在利用现有网络结构的基础上,通过将移动主机的移动分为本地移动和家乡移动两种类型,来减少移动主机向家乡代理和相应的通信主机发送绑定更新消息,从而降低网络的绑定代价,使网络的性能得到改善.     

Registration Cost Performance Analysis of a Hierarchical Mobile Internet Protocol Network

1　Introduction　MobileIP[1～3] isanetworklayersolutiontonodemobilityintheInternet.ItmeansthatMobileIPaccomplishesitstaskbysettinguptheroutingtablesinappropriatenodes,suchthatIPpacketscanbesenttomobilenodesnotconnectedtotheirhomenetworklinks.　AlthoughMobileIPissuitedformacro mobility ,itfailstosupportmicro mobilityefficiently[4～5] .MobileIPrequirestheMobileNode (MN)toregis terwiththeHomeAgent (HA)andtheCorrespon dentNode (CN)whenitchangesitspointofattach mentintheInternet.Therefor…     

An IPv4-IPv6 translation mechanism for SIP overlay network in UMTS all-IP environment

Both IPv6 and session initiation protocol (SIP) are default protocols for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) all-Internet protocol (IP) network. In the existing mobile telecommunications environments, an IPv6-based UMTS all-IP network needs to interwork with other Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4)-based SIP networks. Therefore, mobile SIP applications are typically offered through an overlay structure over the IPv4-Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) interworking environments. Based on 3GPP 23.228, we propose an IPv4-IPv6 translation mechanism (i.e., SIPv6 translator) that integrates different IP infrastructures (i.e., IPv4 and IPv6) to provide an overlay network for transparent SIP application deployment. In this paper, we present the architecture and the call flows of the SIPv6 translator. An analytic model is proposed to investigate the fault tolerance issue of our approach. Our study provides guidelines to select appropriate number of processors for fault tolerance.