Proxy mobile IP with distributed mobility anchors
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Date Issued
2010
Publisher
IEEE
Related Publication(s)
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops (GC Wkshps)
Start page
16
End page
20
Abstract
Existing wireless networks typically support mobility by routing via a mobility anchor in a home network, but such via routing can result in non-optimized routes. This paper proposes a method to distribute the functions of the mobility anchor to different networks to avoid such non-optimized routes. It proposes a distributed mobility anchors architecture consisting of home mobility anchors (H-MA) at the home networks and visited mobility anchors (V-MA) at the visited networks. It splits the functions of a mobility anchor into the logical functions of: (1) home network prefixes allocation, (2) location management (LM), and (3) mobility routing (MR). The V-MA performs MR function to avoid triangle routing problem in Proxy mobile IP, whereas the H-MA also performs the LM function. The needed location information of a mobile node (MN) is acquired by a V-MA from the H-MA only when a packet is first sent to the MN via the V-MA and are then cached at the V-MA to enable optimized MR for packets subsequently sent to the MN.
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