59 research outputs found
A network mobility management architecture for a heteregeneous network environment
Network mobility management enables mobility of personal area networks and vehicular networks across heterogeneous access networks using a Mobile Router. This dissertation presents a network mobility management architecture for minimizing the impact of handoffs on the communications of nodes in the mobile network. The architecture addresses mobility in legacy networks without infrastructure support, but can also exploit infrastructure support for improved handoff performance. Further, the proposed architecture increases the efficiency of communications of nodes in the mobile network with counter parts in the fixed network through the use of caching and route optimization. The performance and costs of the proposed architecture are evaluated through empirical and numerical analysis. The analysis shows the feasibility of the architecture in the networks of today and in those of the near future.Verkkojen liikkuuvudenhallinta mahdollistaa henkilökohtaisten ja ajoneuvoihin asennettujen verkkojen liikkuvuuden heterogeenisessä verkkoympäristössä käyttäen liikkuvaa reititintä. Tämä väitöskirja esittää uuden arkkitehtuurin verkkojen liikkuvuudenhallintaan, joka minimoi verkonvaihdon vaikutuksen päätelaitteiden yhteyksiin.
Vanhoissa verkoissa, joiden infrastruktuuri ei tue verkkojen liikkuvuutta, verkonvaihdos täytyy hallita liikkuvassa reitittimessa. Standardoitu verkkojen liikkuvuudenhallintaprotokolla NEMO mahdollistaa tämän käyttäen ankkurisolmua kiinteässä verkossa pakettien toimittamiseen päätelaitteiden kommunikaatiokumppaneilta liikkuvalle reitittimelle. NEMO:ssa verkonvaihdos aiheuttaa käynnissä olevien yhteyksien keskeytymisen yli sekunnin mittaiseksi ajaksi, aiheuttaen merkittävää häiriötä viestintäsovelluksille.
Esitetyssä arkkitehtuurissa verkonvaihdon vaikutus minimoidaan varustamalla liikkuva reititin kahdella radiolla. Käyttäen kahta radiota liikkuva reititin pystyy suorittamaan verkonvaihdon keskeyttämättä päätelaitteiden yhteyksiä, mikäli verkonvaihtoon on riittävästi aikaa. Käytettävissa oleva aika riippuu liikkuvan reitittimen nopeudesta ja radioverkon rakenteesta. Arkkitehtuuri osaa myös hyödyntää infrastruktuurin tukea saumattomaan verkonvaihtoon. Verkkoinfrastruktuurin tuki nopeuttaa verkonvaihdosprosessia, kasvattaenmaksimaalista verkonvaihdos tahtia. Tällöin liikkuva reitin voi käyttää lyhyen kantaman radioverkkoja, joiden solun säde on yli 80m, ajonopeuksilla 90m/s asti ilman, että verkonvaihdos keskeyttää päätelaitteiden yhteyksiä.
Lisäksi ehdotettu arkkitehtuuri tehostaa kommunikaatiota käyttäen cache-palvelimia liikkuvassa ja kiinteässä verkossa ja optimoitua reititystä liikkuvien päätelaitteiden ja kiinteässä verkossa olevien kommunikaatiosolmujen välillä. Cache-palvelinarkkitehtuuri hyödyntää vapaita radioresursseja liikkuvan verkon cache-palvelimen välimuistin päivittämiseen. Heterogeenisessä verkkoympäristossä cache-palvelimen päivitys suoritetaan lyhyen kantaman laajakaistaisia radioverkkoja käyttäen. Liikkuvan reitittimen siirtyessä laajakaistaisen radioverkon peitealueen ulkopuolelle päätelaitteille palvellaan sisältöä, kuten www sivuja tai videota cache-palvelimelta, säästäen laajemman kantaman radioverkon rajoitetumpia resursseja.
Arkkitehtuurissa käytetään optimoitua reititystä päätelaitteiden ja niiden kommunikaatiokumppaneiden välillä. Optimoitu reititysmekanismi vähentää liikkuvuudenhallintaan käytettyjen protokollien langattoman verkon resurssien kulutusta. Lisäksi optimoitu reititysmekanismi tehostaa pakettien reititystä käyttäen suorinta reittiä kommunikaatiosolmujen välillä.
Esitetyn arkkitehtuurin suorituskyky arvioidaan empiirisen ja numeerisen analyysin avulla. Analyysi arvioi arkkitehtuurin suorituskykyä ja vertaa sitä aikaisemmin ehdotettuihin ratkaisuihin ja osoittaa arkkitehtuurin soveltuvan nykyisiin ja lähitulevaisuuden langattomiin verkkoihin.reviewe
Future Trends and Challenges for Mobile and Convergent Networks
Some traffic characteristics like real-time, location-based, and
community-inspired, as well as the exponential increase on the data traffic in
mobile networks, are challenging the academia and standardization communities
to manage these networks in completely novel and intelligent ways, otherwise,
current network infrastructures can not offer a connection service with an
acceptable quality for both emergent traffic demand and application requisites.
In this way, a very relevant research problem that needs to be addressed is how
a heterogeneous wireless access infrastructure should be controlled to offer a
network access with a proper level of quality for diverse flows ending at
multi-mode devices in mobile scenarios. The current chapter reviews recent
research and standardization work developed under the most used wireless access
technologies and mobile access proposals. It comprehensively outlines the
impact on the deployment of those technologies in future networking
environments, not only on the network performance but also in how the most
important requirements of several relevant players, such as, content providers,
network operators, and users/terminals can be addressed. Finally, the chapter
concludes referring the most notable aspects in how the environment of future
networks are expected to evolve like technology convergence, service
convergence, terminal convergence, market convergence, environmental awareness,
energy-efficiency, self-organized and intelligent infrastructure, as well as
the most important functional requisites to be addressed through that
infrastructure such as flow mobility, data offloading, load balancing and
vertical multihoming.Comment: In book 4G & Beyond: The Convergence of Networks, Devices and
Services, Nova Science Publishers, 201
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Using Link Layer Information to Enhance Mobile IP Handover Mechanism. An investigation in to the design, analysis and performance evaluation of the enhanced Mobile IP handover mechanism using link layer information schemes in the IP environment.
Mobile computing is becoming increasingly important, due to the rise in the number of
portable computers and the desire to have continuous network connectivity to the
Internet, irrespective of the physical location of the node. We have also seen a steady
growth of the market for wireless communication devices. Such devices can only have
the effect of increasing the options for making connections to the global Internet. The
Internet infrastructure is built on top of a collection of protocols called the TCP/IP
protocol suite. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) are the
core protocols in this suite. There are currently two standards: one to support the current
IPv4 and one for the upcoming IPv6 [1]. IP requires the location of any node connected
to the Internet to be uniquely identified by an assigned IP address. This raises one of the
most important issues in mobility because, when a node moves to another physical
location, it has to change its IP address. However, the higher-level protocols require the
IP address of a node to be fixed for identifying connections.
The Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP) is an extension to the Internet Protocol
proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that addresses this issue. It
enables mobile devices to stay connected to the Internet regardless of their locations,
without changing their IP addresses and, therefore, an ongoing IP session will not be
interrupted [2, 3, 4]. More precisely, Mobile IP is a standard protocol that builds on the Internet Protocol by making mobility transparent to applications and higher-level
protocols like TCP. However, before Mobile IP can be broadly deployed, there are still
several technical barriers, such as long handover periods and packet loss that have to be
overcome, in addition to other technical obstacles, including handover performance,
security issues and routing efficiency [7].
This study presents an investigation into developing new handover mechanisms based on
link layer information in Mobile IP and fast handover in Mobile IPv6 environments. The
main goal of the developed mechanisms is to improve the overall IP mobility
performance by reducing packet loss, minimizing signalling overheads and reducing the
handover processing time. These models include the development of a cross-layer
handover scheme using link layer information and Mobile Node (MN) location
information to improve the performance of the communication system by reducing
transmission delay, packet loss and registration signalling overheads.
Finally, the new schemes are developed, tested and validated through a set of
experiments to demonstrate the relative merits and capabilities of these schemes
A network-based coordination design for seamless handover between heterogeneous wireless networks
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-144).The rapid growth of mobile and wireless communication over the last few years has spawned many different wireless networks. These heterogeneous wireless networks are envisioned to interwork over an IP-based infrastructure to realize ubiquitous network service provisioning for mobile users. Moreover, the availability of multiple-interface mobile nodes (MNs) will make it possible to communicate through any of these wireless access networks. This wireless network heterogeneity combined with the availability of multiple-interface MNs creates an environment where handovers between the different wireless access technologies become topical during mobility events. Therefore, operators with multiple interworking heterogeneous wireless networks will need to facilitate seamless vertical handovers among their multiple systems. Seamless vertical handovers ensure ubiquitous continuity to active connections hence satisfy the quality of experience of the mobile users
Fast and seamless mobility management in IPV6-based next-generation wireless networks
Introduction -- Access router tunnelling protocol (ARTP) -- Proposed integrated architecture for next generation wireless networks -- Proposed seamless handoff schemes in next generation wireless networks -- Proposed fast mac layer handoff scheme for MIPV6/WLANs
Enhanced bicasting and buffering
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A network mobility management architecture for a heterogeneous network environment
Network mobility management enables mobility of personal area networks and vehicular networks across heterogeneous access networks using a Mobile Router. This dissertation presents a network mobility management architecture for minimizing the impact of handoffs on the communications of nodes in the mobile network. The architecture addresses mobility in legacy networks without infrastructure support, but can also exploit infrastructure support for improved handoff performance. Further, the proposed architecture increases the efficiency of communications of nodes in the mobile network with counter parts in the fixed network through the use of caching and route optimization. The performance and costs of the proposed architecture are evaluated through empirical and numerical analysis. The analysis shows the feasibility of the architecture in the networks of today and in those of the near future.Verkkojen liikkuuvudenhallinta mahdollistaa henkilökohtaisten ja ajoneuvoihin asennettujen verkkojen liikkuvuuden heterogeenisessä verkkoympäristössä käyttäen liikkuvaa reititintä. Tämä väitöskirja esittää uuden arkkitehtuurin verkkojen liikkuvuudenhallintaan, joka minimoi verkonvaihdon vaikutuksen päätelaitteiden yhteyksiin.
Vanhoissa verkoissa, joiden infrastruktuuri ei tue verkkojen liikkuvuutta, verkonvaihdos täytyy hallita liikkuvassa reitittimessa. Standardoitu verkkojen liikkuvuudenhallintaprotokolla NEMO mahdollistaa tämän käyttäen ankkurisolmua kiinteässä verkossa pakettien toimittamiseen päätelaitteiden kommunikaatiokumppaneilta liikkuvalle reitittimelle. NEMO:ssa verkonvaihdos aiheuttaa käynnissä olevien yhteyksien keskeytymisen yli sekunnin mittaiseksi ajaksi, aiheuttaen merkittävää häiriötä viestintäsovelluksille.
Esitetyssä arkkitehtuurissa verkonvaihdon vaikutus minimoidaan varustamalla liikkuva reititin kahdella radiolla. Käyttäen kahta radiota liikkuva reititin pystyy suorittamaan verkonvaihdon keskeyttämättä päätelaitteiden yhteyksiä, mikäli verkonvaihtoon on riittävästi aikaa. Käytettävissa oleva aika riippuu liikkuvan reitittimen nopeudesta ja radioverkon rakenteesta. Arkkitehtuuri osaa myös hyödyntää infrastruktuurin tukea saumattomaan verkonvaihtoon. Verkkoinfrastruktuurin tuki nopeuttaa verkonvaihdosprosessia, kasvattaenmaksimaalista verkonvaihdos tahtia. Tällöin liikkuva reitin voi käyttää lyhyen kantaman radioverkkoja, joiden solun säde on yli 80m, ajonopeuksilla 90m/s asti ilman, että verkonvaihdos keskeyttää päätelaitteiden yhteyksiä.
Lisäksi ehdotettu arkkitehtuuri tehostaa kommunikaatiota käyttäen cache-palvelimia liikkuvassa ja kiinteässä verkossa ja optimoitua reititystä liikkuvien päätelaitteiden ja kiinteässä verkossa olevien kommunikaatiosolmujen välillä. Cache-palvelinarkkitehtuuri hyödyntää vapaita radioresursseja liikkuvan verkon cache-palvelimen välimuistin päivittämiseen. Heterogeenisessä verkkoympäristossä cache-palvelimen päivitys suoritetaan lyhyen kantaman laajakaistaisia radioverkkoja käyttäen. Liikkuvan reitittimen siirtyessä laajakaistaisen radioverkon peitealueen ulkopuolelle päätelaitteille palvellaan sisältöä, kuten www sivuja tai videota cache-palvelimelta, säästäen laajemman kantaman radioverkon rajoitetumpia resursseja.
Arkkitehtuurissa käytetään optimoitua reititystä päätelaitteiden ja niiden kommunikaatiokumppaneiden välillä. Optimoitu reititysmekanismi vähentää liikkuvuudenhallintaan käytettyjen protokollien langattoman verkon resurssien kulutusta. Lisäksi optimoitu reititysmekanismi tehostaa pakettien reititystä käyttäen suorinta reittiä kommunikaatiosolmujen välillä.
Esitetyn arkkitehtuurin suorituskyky arvioidaan empiirisen ja numeerisen analyysin avulla. Analyysi arvioi arkkitehtuurin suorituskykyä ja vertaa sitä aikaisemmin ehdotettuihin ratkaisuihin ja osoittaa arkkitehtuurin soveltuvan nykyisiin ja lähitulevaisuuden langattomiin verkkoihin.reviewe
Mobility management across converged IP-based heterogeneous access networks
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 8/2/2010.In order to satisfy customer demand for a high performance “global” mobility service, network operators (ISPs, carriers, mobile operators, etc.) are facing the need to evolve to a converged “all-IP” centric heterogeneous access infrastructure. However, the integration of such heterogeneous access networks (e.g. 802.11, 802.16e, UMTS etc) brings major mobility issues. This thesis tackles issues plaguing existing mobility management solutions in converged IP-based heterogeneous networks. In order to do so, the thesis firstly proposes a cross-layer mechanism using the upcoming IEEE802.21 MIH services to make intelligent and optimized handovers. In this respect, FMIPv6 is integrated with the IEEE802.21 mechanism to provide seamless mobility during the overall handover process. The proposed solution is then applied in a simulated vehicular environment to optimize the NEMO handover process. It is shown through analysis and simulations of the signalling process that the overall expected handover (both L2 and L3) latency in FMIPv6 can be reduced by the proposed mechanism by 69%. Secondly, it is expected that the operator of a Next Generation Network will provide mobility as a service that will generate significant revenues. As a result, dynamic service bootstrapping and authorization mechanisms must be in place to efficiently deploy a mobility service (without static provisioning), which will allow only legitimate users to access the service. A GNU Linux based test-bed has been implemented to demonstrate this. The experiments presented show the handover performance of the secured FMIPv6 over the implemented test-bed compared to plain FMIPv6 and MIPv6 by providing quantitative measurements and results on the quality of experience perceived by the users of IPv6 multimedia applications. The results show the inclusion of the additional signalling of the proposed architecture for the purpose of authorization and bootstrapping (i.e. key distribution using HOKEY) has no adverse effect on the overall handover process. Also, using a formal security analysis tool, it is shown that the proposed mechanism is safe/secure from the induced security threats. Lastly, a novel IEEE802.21 assisted EAP based re-authentication scheme over a service authorization and bootstrapping framework is presented. AAA based authentication mechanisms like EAP incur signalling overheads due to large RTTs. As a result, overall handover latency also increases. Therefore, a fast re-authentication scheme is presented which utilizes IEEE802.21 MIH services to minimize the EAP authentication process delays and as a result reduce the overall handover latency. Analysis of the signalling process based on analytical results shows that the overall handover latency for mobility protocols will be approximately reduced by 70% by the proposed scheme
Mobility management in IP-Based Networks
Mobile communication networks experience a tremendous development clearly
evident from the wide variety of new applications way beyond classical
phone services. The tremendous success of the Internet along with the
demand for always-on connectivity has triggered the development of All-IP
mobile communication networks. Deploying these networks requires, however,
overcoming many challenges. One of the main challenges is how to manage the
mobility between cells connecting through an IP core in a way that
satisfies real-time requirements. This challenge is the focus of this
dissertation. This dissertation delivers an in-depth analysis of the
mobility management issue in IP-based mobile communication networks. The
advantages and disadvantages of various concepts for mobility management in
different layers of the TCP/IP protocol stack are investigated. In
addition, a classification and brief description of well-known mobility
approaches for each layer are provided. The analysis concludes that network
layer mobility management solutions seem to be best suited to satisfy the
requirements of future All-IP networks. The dissertation, therefore,
provides a comprehensive review of network layer mobility management
protocols along with a discussion of their pros and cons. Analyses of
previous work in this area show that the proposed techniques attempt to
improve the performance by making constraints either on access networks
(e.g. requiring a hierarchical topology, introducing of intermediate nodes,
etc.) or mobile terminals (e.g. undertaking many measurements, location
tracking, etc.). Therefore, a new technique is required that completes
handoffs quickly without affecting the end-to-end performance of ongoing
applications. In addition, it should place restrictions neither on access
networks nor on mobiles. To meet these requirements, a new solution named
Mobile IP Fast Authentication protocol (MIFA) is proposed. MIFA provides
seamless mobility and advances the state of the art. It utilizes the fact
that mobiles movements are limited to a small set of neighboring subnets.
Thus, contacting these neighbors and providing them in advance with
sufficient data related to the mobiles enable them to fast re-authenticate
the mobiles after the handoff. The dissertation specifies the proposal for
both IPv4 and IPv6. The specification of MIFA considers including many
error recovery mechanisms to cover the most likely failures. Security
considerations are studied carefully as well. MIFA does not make any
restrictions on the network topology. It makes use of layer 2 information
to optimize the performance and works well even if such information is not
available.In order to analyze our new proposal in comparison to a wide
range of well-known mobility management protocols, this dissertation
proposes a generic mathematical model that supports the evaluation of
figures such as average handoff latency, average number of dropped packets,
location update cost and packet delivery cost. The generic model considers
dropped control messages and takes different network topologies and
mobility scenarios into account. This dissertation also validates the
generic mathematical model by comparing its results to simulation results
as well as results of real testbeds under the same assumptions. The
validation proves that the generic model delivers an accurate evaluation of
the performance in low-loaded networks. The accuracy of the model remains
acceptable even under high loads. The validation also shows that simulation
results lie in a range of 23 %, while results of real testbeds lie in a
range of 30 % of the generic model?s results. To simplify the analysis
using the generic mathematical model, 4 new tools are developed in the
scope of this work. They automate the parameterization of mobility
protocols, network topologies and mobility scenarios. This dissertation
also evaluates the new proposal in comparison to well-known approaches
(e.g. Mobile IP, Handoff-Aware Wireless Access Internet Infrastructure
(HAWAII), etc.) by means of the generic mathematical model as well as
simulation studies modeled in the Network Simulator 2. The evaluation shows
that MIFA is a very fast protocol. It outperforms all studied protocols
with respect to the handoff latency and number of dropped packets per
handoff. MIFA is suitable for low as well as high speeds. Moreover, there
is no significant impact of the network topology on its performance. A main
advantage of MIFA is its robustness against the dropping of control
messages. It remains able to achieve seamless handoffs even if a dropping
occurs. The performance improvement is achieved, however, at the cost of
introducing new control messages mainly to distribute data concerning
mobile terminals to neighbor subnets. This results in more location update
cost than that resulting from the other mobility management protocols
studied. Due to excluding any constraints on the network topology, MIFA
generates the same packet delivery cost as Mobile IP and less than other
protocols.An additional focus of this dissertation is the development of an
adaptive eLearning environment that personalizes eLearning contents
conveying the topics of this dissertation depending on users?
characteristics. The goal is to allow researchers to quickly become
involved in research on mobility management, while learners such as
students are able to gain information on the topics without excess detail.
Analyses of existing eLearning environments show a lack of adaptivity
support. Existing environments focus mainly on adapting either the
navigation or the presentation of contents depending on one or more
selected users? characteristics. There is no environment that supports both
simultaneously. In addition, many user characteristics are disregarded
during the adaptivity process. Thus, there is a need to develop a new
adaptive eLearning environment able to eliminate these drawbacks. This
dissertation, therefore, designs a new Metadata-driven Adaptive eLearning
Environment (MAeLE). MAeLE generates personalized eLearning courses along
with building an adequate navigation at run-time. Adaptivity depends mainly
on providing contents with their describing metadata, which are stored in a
separate database, thus enabling reusing of eLearning contents. The
relation between the metadata that describe contents and those describing
learners are defined accurately, which enables a dynamic building of
personalized courses at run-time. A prototype for MAeLE is provided in this
dissertation as well
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