Proposal and Evaluation of a Function-Distributed Mobility Architecture for the Future Internet

Gen MOTOYOSHI  Kenji LEIBNITZ  Masayuki MURATA 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E94-B  No.7  pp.1952-1963
Publication Date: 2011/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
distributed mobilityfuture Internetrandom walk modelcost analysis

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Summary: 
Several task forces have been working on how to design the future Internet in a clean slate manner and mobility management is one of the key issues to be considered. However, mobility management in the future Internet is still being designed in an “all-in-one” way where all management functions are tightly kept at a single location and this results in cost inefficiency that can be an obstruction to constructing flexible systems. In this paper, we propose a new function-distributed mobility management architecture that can enable more flexible future Internet construction. Furthermore, we show the effectiveness of our proposed system via a cost analysis and computer simulation with a random walk mobility model.