A Network Architecture for Providing Micro-Mobility in MPLS/GMPLS Networks

Author

Badan, Tomás ; Zagari, Eduardo ; Prado, Rodrigo ; Cardozo, Eleri ; Aes, Maurício Magalh ; Carrilho, J. ; Pinto, José CarrilhoRossano ; Berenguel, André ; Barbosa, D. ; Moraes, Daniel ; Johnson, Thienne ; Westberg, Lars

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Goias (UFG), Goiania

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The mobile plane architecture (MPA) is a network architecture that provides micro-mobility in a network-centric way, that is, the burden of supporting micro-mobility is placed on the network and not on the mobile nodes. MPA employs an overlay network above an IPv4 or IPv6 transport network in order to direct traffic to the mobile nodes. The overlay network is built by establishing point-to-multipoint (P2MP) tunnels through the transport network. This paper presents an implementation of MPA over MPLS/GMPLS networks. It is shown that the combination of P2MP tunneling with label stacking is an effective way for providing mobility services in MPLS/GMPLS transport networks. Results obtained in a lab-sized network are presented as well.

Keywords

IP networks; mobile computing; multiprotocol label switching; IPv4 transport network; IPv6 transport network; MPLS/GMPLS networks; P2MP tunneling; label stacking; micromobility; mobile plane architecture; mobility services; network architecture; overlay network; point-to-multipoint tunnels; Computer architecture; Computer networks; IP networks; Mobile computing; Multiprotocol label switching; Peer to peer computing; Routing protocols; Stacking; Telecommunication traffic; Tunneling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. WCNC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2947-9

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917514

Filename

4917514