Title: A comprehensive simulation study of a network-based distributed mobility management framework

Authors: Muayad Khalil Murtadha; Nor Kamariah Noordin; Borhanuddin Mohd Ali; Fazirulhisyam Hashim

Addresses: Computer Center, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq; Department of Computer and Communications Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer and Communications Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer and Communications Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia ' Department of Computer and Communications Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract: New mobility solutions are required for mobile environments characterised by an ever-increasing number of mobile devices and volume of internet data traffic. A single mobility anchor in the current Centralised Mobility Management (CMM) performs all mobility and routing functionalities. Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) paradigm is introduced recently to overcome scalability, reliability and non-optimal routing issues of the CMM. The DMM approach is proposed to flatten the network architecture by moving the mobility anchors closer to the users and separating the control and data planes at the network edge. In this paper, we develop and implement a network-based DMM model using NS2 simulation tool. Extensive simulations are performed to evaluate the performance of the DMM against that of the CMM. The simulation results indicate that the DMM approach outperforms the CMM approach under various mobility environments. Thus, this study verifies previous analytical studies and provides more accurate findings in DMM.

Keywords: DMM; distributed mobility management; CMM; centralised mobility management; handover procedure; PMIPv6; simulation; NS2; performance analysis; handover latency; packet loss; scalability; reliability; non-optimal routing; network architecture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2016.079438

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2016 Vol.11 No.1, pp.24 - 32

Received: 26 Sep 2015
Accepted: 19 Feb 2016

Published online: 28 Sep 2016 *

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