Survey on Mobility and Multihoming in Future Internet

Mobility and multihoming represent key challenges for the development of the current and Future Internet, especially because of the rapid increase of user mobility and network heterogeneity. Both issues, mobility and multihoming, are closely related to each other and mainly issues of the used IP addressing scheme. This survey presents a general overview on approaches that enable mobility and multihoming in Future Internet; it focuses especially on approaches that suggest using new addressing schemes on layer 3, namely Locator/ID Separation and Core/Edge Separation, in order to tackle mobility and multihoming issues in an integrated manner. In our survey, we present a classification of the investigated approaches and summarize the main solution strategies. Furthermore, we evaluate the investigated approaches on basis of their capabilities and technical properties. On basis of the evaluation, where we emphasize the benefits and shortcomings of current solution strategies, we discuss future research issues related to mobility and multihoming.