Title :
Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Home Agent Redundancy Solution
Author :
Gay, Vincent ; Hof, Tobias ; Perrier, Vincent ; Robert, Eric
Author_Institution :
Syst. Eng. & Archit. Thales Commun. S.A., Colombes
Abstract :
The specifications of the protocols supporting mobility - MIPv6, NEMO - centralize their key functionalities on the home agent, which represents a single point of failure. In the context of the French research project REMORA, we have developed a solution to make home agent-based mobility protocols more reliable against the home agent failures. This paper presents the design, the implementation and the performance evaluation of a solution for home agent redundancy, which is based on a set of synchronized home agents running a protocol for failure detection and recovery. First, the protocol has been specified and designed, based on ongoing IETF drafts. Second, a fully operational prototype has been implemented and its performances have been validated and assessed on a large-scale test bed as proof-of-concept.
Keywords :
IP networks; Internet; computer network performance evaluation; computer network reliability; home computing; mobile computing; redundancy; transport protocols; IETF draft; MIPv6; NEMO; REMORA French research project; failure recovery; home agent failure detection; home agent redundancy solution; large-scale test bed; mobile IPv6; mobility protocol; performance evaluation; Context; Design engineering; Large-scale systems; Load management; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Prototypes; Redundancy; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication traffic; Home Agent redundancy; Mobile IPv6; NEMO; reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Networking and Services, 2009. ICNS '09. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3688-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3586-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICNS.2009.78
