Integration of mobile IP and multi-protocol label switching

Author

Ren, Zhong ; Tham, Chen-Khong ; Foo, Chun-Choong ; Ko, Chi-Chung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

7

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2123

Abstract

Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) is a technology that combines the simplicity of IP routing with the high-speed switching of ATM. Mobile IP is a protocol that allows users to move around and yet maintain continuous IP network connectivity. We propose a scheme to integrate the mobile IP and MPLS protocols. The integration improves the scalability of the mobile IP data forwarding process by leveraging on the features of MPLS which are fast switching, small state maintenance and high scalability. In addition, we have removed the need for IP-in-IP tunneling from home agent (HA) to foreign agent (FA) under this scheme. This paper covers some issues regarding mobile IP scalability and also defines the signaling and control mechanisms required to integrate MPLS and mobile IP

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; cellular radio; packet radio networks; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; ATM; IP network connectivity; IP routing; Internet; MPLS protocols; cellular radio; control mechanisms; foreign agent; high-speed switching; home agent; mobile IP; mobile IP data forwarding; mobile IP scalability; mobile computing; multi-protocol label switching; packet forwarding; signaling mechanisms; state maintenance; Asynchronous transfer mode; Cellular networks; Encoding; IP networks; Mobile computing; Multiprotocol label switching; Packet switching; Protocols; Routing; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.937032

Filename

937032