A mobility management protocol for IP-based cellular networks

Author

De Silva, Prasan ; Sirisena, Harsha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

482

Abstract

Mobile IP is an IETF RFC that supports transparent host migration on the Internet. In the transition to IP-based cellular networks, it is widely agreed that mobile IP provides an elegant solution for inter-domain, or macro-mobility management, but lacks critical aspects of mobility management needed within cellular networks. The shortcomings have led to the emergence of micro-mobility management protocols. This paper presents an IP-based mobility management protocol, μ-mobile IP, based on two enhancements, proactive handoff and paging support, to an Internet draft proposal, Regional Registrations. A signaling cost analysis is used to justify the need for such enhancements. We show through simulations the protocol´s suitability for supporting real-time communications

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; costing; paging communication; radio networks; telecommunication network management; telecommunication signalling; transport protocols; μ-mobile IP; IETF RFC; IP-based cellular networks; Internet; Internet draft proposal; Regional Registrations protocol; inter-domain management; micromobility management protocols; mobile IP; mobility management protocol; real-time communications; signaling cost analysis; simulations; transparent host migration; ANSI standards; Circuits; Costs; Disaster management; Internet; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile radio mobility management; Proposals; Protocols; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2001. Proceedings. Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7128-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2001.956307

Filename

956307