An analytical performance evaluation of LNS/SMP mobility management scheme

Future military networks must be self-configured and self-maintained so that they can be rapidly deployed and quickly reorganized when needed. Moreover, unlike commercial networks, all elements can be highly mobile, including the routers and servers that make up the communications infrastructure. In order to address this need for new mobility management solutions, we proposed a mobility management mechanism based on logical name system (LNS) to support location management and a session maintenance protocol (SMP) to maintain ongoing sessions. This paper compares the performance of the proposed LNS/SMP approach with standard mobile IPv4 (MIPv4) on the basis of an analytical framework. Our analysis identifies network and traffic conditions under which one approach outperforms the other.