In this letter, we propose a novel binding scheme for network mobility support in PMIPv6 networks where new network-layer messages are suggested to solve the duplicate tunneling problem. Also our proposed scheme is designed to reduce handover latency and signaling overhead for network-based mobility management. To evaluate the performance of our method, we verify the operation of the proposed scheme with the network simulator, ns-2, and accomplished the simulation to show its superior performance. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme works more efficiently than the scheme defined by the IETF NETLMM WG in terms of packet loss, handover latency, and average packet throughput.

Most of the IP mobility management schemes based on the IETF's MIPv6 may not be suitable for delay-sensitive vehicular applications since there will be frequent service disruptions as the moving vehicles frequently change their points of wireless network attachment. This paper presents a fast IP mobility management scheme for vehicular networks where multiple wireless network interfaces are used to perform fast handovers without handover latency or packet loss. In order to do this, the IETF standard HMIPv6 has been extended, where multiple simultaneous tunnels between the HMIPv6 mobility anchor point (MAP) and the mobile gateway are dynamically constructed. We have designed the architecture for a mobile gateway for supporting multiple tunnels, the structure of the extension MAP (E-MAP), and the signaling procedure to achieve fast IP handover in vehicular networks. Both mathematical analysis and simulation have been done for performance evaluation. The results show that the proposed scheme is superior to HMIPv6 and MIPv6 with regard to handover latency and packet loss as the vehicle moves between different wireless network cells at high speed.

With the increasing deployment of mobile devices and the advent of broadband wireless access systems such as WiBro, mWiMAX, and HSDPA, an efficient IP mobility management protocol becomes one of the most important technical issues for the successful deployment of the broadband wireless data networking service. IETF has proposed the Mobile IPv6 as the basic mobility management protocol for IPv6 networks. To enhance the performance of the basic MIPv6, researchers have been actively working on HMIPv6 and FMIPv6 protocols. In this paper, we propose a new mobility management protocol, HIMIPv6 (Highly Integrated MIPv6), which tightly integrates the hierarchical mobility management mechanism of the HMIPv6 and the proactive handover support of the FMIPv6 to enhance the handover performance especially for the cellular networking environment with high frequent handover activities. We have performed extensive simulation study using ns2 and the results show that the proposed HIMIPv6 outperforms FMIPv6 and HMIPv6. There is no packet loss and consequent service interruption caused by IP handover in HIMIP.

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) was proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for efficient mobility management. HMIPv6 reduces the amount of signaling in the wired network link that exists in Mobile IPv6. But, HMIPv6 cannot reduce the signaling cost in the wireless link. In mobile networks, the wireless link has far less available bandwidth resources and limited scalability compared with the wired network link. Therefore, the signaling overhead associated with mobility management severely degrades the wireless link. In this paper, we propose virtual-IP (VIP) allocation scheme with dynamic VIP zone to reduce the wireless signaling cost in mobile networks. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared with HMIPv6. Based on the numerical analysis and simulation, we show that VIP allocation scheme reduces the wireless signaling cost under various system conditions.

In recent years, the Internet has come to be able to be used at higher speed and more cheaply everywhere as the broadband service and the wireless LAN service have been provided by various ISPs. In such a ubiquitous environment, a demand for mobile computing environments in the intranet and easy access from remote sites has been increasing greatly as well as the Internet. To meet this requirement, we have proposed a Logical Office service, which is a kind of the mobile VLAN, and enables terminal plug and play, layer two tunneling, and ubiquitous communication. This paper newly proposes that the offer of the IP mobility to not only the movement of the terminal but also existing network services be possible the Logical Office service which we developed. As a result, it was verified to operate existing network services such as wirelesses LAN on the Logical Office service, and for newly existing network services to able to have the IP mobility.

This paper proposes a protocol to support mobility in the Internet with a new encapsulation technique. IP-squared (IP2). A basic idea to support mobility is as follows; 1) to define two IP addresses for each mobile host that indicate the host itself and its geographical location (logical and geographical identifiers), 2) to maintain an association of the logical identifier with the geographical identifier and 3) to continue communications between hosts by converting their logical identifiers to the corresponding geographical identifiers dynamically wherever they migrate. The association is called mobility binding. A goal of IP2 is to propose a mobility support feature which can simultaneously realize efficient routing paths to mobile hosts and less control traffics to maintain the mobility bindings into the current Internet Protocol without any modifications to both the conventional protocols and nodes. IP2 forms the efficient routing paths by enabling intermediate nodes to process the encapsulated datagrams. The key technique for this feature is a new header detection algorithm based on CRC checksum calculation and an effective usage of a header structure. Percentage of efficient routing paths can be adaptively controlled, depending on dispositions of the nodes which can en -and de capsulate datagrams appropriately based on the detection algorithm and the mobility bindings. The mobility binding must be updated whenever a mobile host migrates to another network. IP2 adopts an updating scheme combining self refreshment and on demand updating modes with taking a mechanism to form the efficient routing paths into considerations. It is shown that IP2 can acheive both an efficient routing path formation and a low traffic for mobility binding maintenance through analytical evaluations.