Load Balancing by Scoring for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6

Author

Ito, Ken ; Atsumi, Akiyoshi ; Tanaka, Yoshiaki

Author_Institution

Global Inf. & Telecommun. Inst., Waseda Univ., Tokyo

fYear

2005

fDate

10-10 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

328

Lastpage

333

Abstract

HMIPv6 (hierarchical mobile IPv6) protocol introduces MAP (mobility anchor point) which relays all packets between MN (mobile node) and other nodes outside a MAP mobility management area (H. Soliman et al., 2005). This method can reduce the amount of signaling traffic and improve handover frequency. Since very high loads are concentrated in a MAP and the load of MAP possibly influences the communication quality, the load balancing by suitable policy is needed in a multi-layered MAP network. This paper proposes load balancing with a ´score´ calculated according to attributes of MNs, such as handover frequency and holding time. Simulation results showed that this proposed method could reduce the control traffic while achieving load balancing on multi-layered MAP in HMIPv6

Keywords

IP networks; mobile computing; mobility management (mobile radio); protocols; resource allocation; telecommunication control; telecommunication traffic; HMIPv6 protocol; MAP mobility management; communication quality; handover frequency; hierarchical mobile IPv6 protocol; holding time; load balancing; mobile node; mobility anchor point; multi-layered MAP network; signaling traffic; suitable policy; Communication system traffic control; Frequency; Load management; Mobile communication; Mobile radio mobility management; Protocols; Relays; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Telecommunication Technologies, 2005. APSITT 2005 Proceedings. 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on

Conference_Location

Yangon

Print_ISBN

4-88552-216-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSITT.2005.203679

Filename

1593486