Volume 3 - Issue 3
Rethinking IP Mobility Management
- Karl Andersson
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Laboratory Lulea University of Technology SE-931 87 Skelleftea, Sweden
karl.andersson@ltu.se
- Muslim Elkotob
MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104-106 10553 Berlin, Germany
muslim.elkotob@media-broadcast.com
Keywords: IP Mobility Mangement, GTP, Mobile IP, Proxy Mobile IP, LISP, Distributed and dynamic mobility management.
Abstract
IP Mobility Management allowing for handover and location management to be handled by the network
layer has been around for a couple of 20 years or so now. A number of protocols have been
proposed including the GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP), Mobile IP, Proxy Mobile IP, and the Locator/
Identifier Split Protocol (LISP) being the best known and most discussed in the research literature.
This paper overviews existing solutions and suggests a new distributed and dynamic mobility management
scheme and evaluates it against existing static approaches.