HAWAII: a domain-based approach for supporting mobility in wide-area wireless networks

Author

Ramjee, Ramachandran ; Varadhan, Kannan ; Salgarelli, Luca ; Thuel, Sandra R. ; Wang, Shie-Yuan ; Porta, Thomas La

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

396

Lastpage

410

Abstract

Mobile IP is the current standard for supporting macromobility of mobile hosts. However, in the case of micromobility support, there are several competing proposals. We present the design, implementation and performance evaluation of HAWAII (handoff-aware wireless access Internet infrastructure), a domain-based approach for supporting mobility. HAWAII uses specialized path setup schemes which install host-based forwarding entries in specific routers to support intra-domain micromobility. These path setup schemes deliver excellent performance by reducing mobility related disruption to user applications. Also, mobile hosts retain their network address while moving within the domain, simplifying quality-of-service (QoS) support. Furthermore, reliability is achieved through maintaining soft-state forwarding entries for the mobile hosts and leveraging fault detection mechanisms built in existing intra-domain routing protocols. HAWAII defaults to using Mobile IP for macromobility, thus providing a comprehensive solution for mobility support in wide-area wireless networks

Keywords

Internet; computer network reliability; mobile computing; mobile radio; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; HAWAII; Mobile IP; QoS support; handoff-aware wireless access Internet infrastructure; intra-domain routing protocols; macromobility support; micromobility support; quality-of-service support; wide-area wireless networks; Electronic switching systems; Fault detection; Home automation; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Maintenance; Proposals; Quality of service; Routing protocols; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6692

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNET.2002.1012370

Filename

1012370