Adaptive MAP Selection with Load Balancing Mechanism for the Hierarchical Mobile IPv6

Ying-Hong Wang; Chih-Peng Hsu; Chien-Shan  Kuo

doi:10.6180/jase.2009.12.4.12

Adaptive MAP Selection with Load Balancing Mechanism for the Hierarchical Mobile IPv6

Computer Science and Information Engineering

Ying-Hong Wang¹, Chih-Peng Hsu This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.¹ and Chien-Shan Kuo¹

¹Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.

Received: March 27, 2008
Accepted: February 18, 2009
Publication Date: December 1, 2009

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ABSTRACT

The Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), which is drawn up by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), utilizes the Mobile Anchor Point (MAP) to reduce the considerable number of binding update (BU) messages among the mobile node (MN), the correspondent node (CN), and the home agent (HA). According to the HMIPv6 mechanism, the MAP of higher layer can efficiently reduce the frequency of performing binding update; the higher loading of service is the bottleneck of the whole network. Because the bandwidth of the MAP which can serve is finite, the whole network will be crashed due to the overloading if the MAP serves as the gateway at the same time. This paper proposes a MAP selection mechanism that takes the mobile node’s particular characteristics which include the mobility velocity and quantity of communication services into consideration, the proposal can manage the MAPs efficiently. Besides, we design a MAP load balancing mechanism to avoid the network crash due to the overloaded MAP.

Keywords: Hierarchical Mobile IPv6, MAP Selection, Load Balancing, Binding Update, Home Agent

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