Performance of DNS as location manager

Author

Ahmed, Arif ; Reaz, S. ; Atiquzzaman, M. ; Fu, Songnian

Author_Institution

Lab. Sch. of Comput. Sci., Oklahoma Univ., Norman, OK

fYear

2005

fDate

22-25 May 2005

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Domain name system (DNS) maps domain names to IP addresses in the Internet. DNS can, however, be used as a location manager (LM) for mobility management in wireless mobile networks. The suitability and performance of DNS as a LM for locating mobile hosts (MH) has not been studied in the past. In this paper, we develop an analytical model to measure the performance of DNS as LM for IP diversity based mobility management. We have used success rate, which takes into account the radius of the subnet, the residence time of a MH in a subnet, velocity of MH, network latency, DNS processing delay and the overlapping distance between two neighboring subnets as performance measures. Our analysis shows that for a reasonable overlap between cells, DNS can serve as a LM with very high success rate even under high network latency

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; computer network management; mobile computing; mobility management (mobile radio); performance evaluation; DNS processing delay; IP addresses; IP diversity based mobility management; Internet; domain name system; location manager; mobile hosts; subnet radius; wireless mobile networks; Analytical models; Computer network management; Computer science; Delay; Domain Name System; IP networks; Internet; Mobile radio mobility management; Telecommunication network management; USA Councils; DNS; IP Diversity; Location Management; Mobility Management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro Information Technology, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9232-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2005.1627007

Filename

1627007