TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual mobility control domain for enhancements of mobility protocols
AU - Wakikawa, Ryuji
AU - Ohara, Yasuhiro
AU - Murai, Jun
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - In this paper, Virtual Mobility Control Domain (VMCD) is proposed to enhance mobility protocols such as Mobile IP and Network Mobility (NEMO). These mobility protocols rely on a single agent called the home agent. This leads to protocol weakness in terms of system robustness and redundant routes. In VMCD, multiple anchor points serving the same home network are placed as home agents at different networks on the Internet backbone. These anchor points advertise the route of the same home network to the backbone from different networks. It is similar to anycast routing approach of root DNS. By genuine routing, packets meant for mobile nodes are always drawn into the closest anchor point and are delivered to the mobile node by the anchor point on behalf of home agent. In addition, even if one of the anchor points fails, another anchor point immediately takes over for the failed anchor point. VMCD provides better routes for mobile nodes and protocol robustness with minimal involvement of end nodes. This paper discusses the VMCD solutions and shows the efficiency and effectiveness of VMCD.
AB - In this paper, Virtual Mobility Control Domain (VMCD) is proposed to enhance mobility protocols such as Mobile IP and Network Mobility (NEMO). These mobility protocols rely on a single agent called the home agent. This leads to protocol weakness in terms of system robustness and redundant routes. In VMCD, multiple anchor points serving the same home network are placed as home agents at different networks on the Internet backbone. These anchor points advertise the route of the same home network to the backbone from different networks. It is similar to anycast routing approach of root DNS. By genuine routing, packets meant for mobile nodes are always drawn into the closest anchor point and are delivered to the mobile node by the anchor point on behalf of home agent. In addition, even if one of the anchor points fails, another anchor point immediately takes over for the failed anchor point. VMCD provides better routes for mobile nodes and protocol robustness with minimal involvement of end nodes. This paper discusses the VMCD solutions and shows the efficiency and effectiveness of VMCD.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.341
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.341
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39049119881
SN - 1424402212
SN - 9781424402212
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
BT - Proceedings - INFOCOM 2006
T2 - INFOCOM 2006: 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
Y2 - 23 April 2006 through 29 April 2006
ER -