Rethinking IP Mobility Management


Karl Andersson1 and Muslim Elkotob2

 

1Pervasive and Mobile Computing Laboratory

Luleå University of Technology

SE-931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden

Tel: +46-910-585364

karl.andersson@ltu.se

 

 

2MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH

Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104-106

10553 Berlin, Germany

muslim.elkotob@media-broadcast.com

 

Abstract


IP Mobility Management allowing for handover and location management to be handled by the network layer has been around for a couple of 20 years or so now. A number of protocols have been proposed including the GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP), Mobile IP, Proxy Mobile IP, and the Locator/Identifier Split Protocol (LISP) being the best known and most discussed in the research literature. This paper overviews existing solutions and suggests a new distributed and dynamic mobility management scheme and evaluates it against existing static approaches.
 

 

Keywords: IP Mobility Mangement, GTP, Mobile IP, Proxy Mobile IP, LISP,
Distributed and dynamic mobility management.

 

Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA),

Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 41-49, September 2012 [pdf]