A three-level mobility management scheme for hierarchical mobile IPv6 networks

作     者：WAN Zheng PAN Xue-zeng CHEN Jian CUI Yu-zeng 

作者机构：School of Computer Science Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China School of Information Technology Jiangxi Universty of Fmance and Economics Nanchang 330013 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）A辑（应用物理与工程）)

年 卷 期：2006年第7卷第12期

页      面：2118-2126页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 08[工学] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60662003 and 60462003)  the Huawei Funds for Scienceand Technology (No. YJCB2004025SP) and the Science and Tech-nology Plan of Zhejiang Province (No. 2005C21002)  China 

主　　题：Mobile IPv6 Mobility management Admission control Load control 

摘      要：Performance evaluation shows that Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) cannot outperform standard Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) in all scenarios. Thus, adaptive protocol selection under certain circumstances is desired. Moreover, it is necessary to balance the load among different Mobility Anchor Points (MAPs). This paper proposes an efficient three-level hierarchical ar- chitecture for mobility management in HMIPv6 networks, in which a mobile node (MN) may register with either a higher/lower MAP or its home agent according to its speed and the number of connecting correspondent nodes (CNs). An admission control algorithm and a replacement algorithm are introduced to achieve load balancing between two MAP levels and among different MAPs within the same MAP level. Admission control is based on the number of CNs but not MNs that an MAP serves. In case there is no capacity for an MN, the MAP chooses an existing MN to be replaced. The replaced MN uses the MAP selection al- gorithm again to choose another mobility agent. Simulation results showed that the proposed scheme achieves better performance not only in reducing the signaling overhead, but also in load balancing among different MAPs.