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Towards Mobility Enabled Protocol Stack For Future Wireless Networks
Towards Mobility Enabled Protocol Stack For Future Wireless Networks
Towards Mobility Enabled Protocol Stack For Future Wireless Networks
WIRELESS NETWORKS
ABSTRACT
Future wireless networks have two widely accepted characteristics. Firstly, they
will be based on all-IP based network architecture and secondly they will integrate
heterogeneous wireless access technologies. As a result, there exist today a
multitude of solutions aimed at managing these imminent challenges. These
solutions are at varying stages of deployment, from purely analytical research, to
experimentally validated proposals, right through to fully standardised and
commercially available systems. In this paper we discuss the meaning,
requirements, responsibilities and solutions for mobility management on all seven
layers of the OSI communication stack. We identify internet mobility requirements
and perform valuable three dimensional analyses between internet mobility
requirements, mobility management protocols and layers of OSI communication
stack. We also quantify types of mobilites possible in the future wireless networks
and associate them with the responsible layers. In the end we conclude that no
single layer in the OSI stack is responsible to completely address all the internet
mobility requirements and support all the mobility types. We strongly believe that
every layer has its own responsibilities in order to support mobility. Therefore in
order to deal with mobility challenge we should have a “Mobility Enabled
Protocol Stack” instead of mobility management solution on a specific layer. We
argue that the best approach to build a complete mobility enabled protocol stack
for future wireless networks is based on the concept of Co-Existence of mobility
management protocols proposed on different layers, in a way that we get best out
of each. In the end, in order to support our arguments, we propose a novel mobility
enabled protocol stack, naming mechanism and wireless network architecture for
the future wireless networks.
of the paper is organized as follows. In the next Global mobility can also be referred to as inter-
section we describe mobility types and their network mobility. Inter-network mobility is the
relationship with the OSI stack layers. In section 3, movement of device within two different networks
we discuss what does mobility means on all seven domains.
layers of the OSI stack? We review the mobility Now let’s have a look at layers in the OSI stack
management requirements in section 4. Section 5, that are responsible for dealing with physical
presents mobility management solutions on different mobility. At the base level, physical mobility is
layers and analyse them according to the mobility divided into three types’ intra-subnet, inter-subnet
types and mobility requirements. Finally, we and inter-network. In the case intra-subnet mobility,
Figure 14 : A Proposed Mobility Management Architecture based on the AND-Based Co-Existence (ABC) Concept, for
Future Wireless Networks
more different LWAPP administered domains. a connection migration scheme that’s lets the MH
Finally, the movement of mobile objects from one ‘freeze’ or stop an existing TCP connection during
device to another within a Personal Area Network handoff by advertising a zero window size to the CN,
(PAN). In the case of (1), the mobile device is and unfreezes the connection after handoff. This
moving between the lightweight AP’s within the technique is suitable for our architecture as it’s a
administrative range of single LWAPP enabled mobility aware scheme and reduces packet loss
access router. In this case as all the management during the handoff process. Moreover this technique
operations including handover management is is specific to transport later and can work with other
handled by the same Access Router (AR) so we do higher or lowers layers techniques. In our proposed
not have to make any changes to the end point architecture the vertical handoff can be achieved
(mobile device). (we have to associate Link Layer using any context aware vertical handoff application
function) layer solutions [2][28].
In the case of (2), the mobile device is moving
between two different LWAPP administrative 7 Conclusion
domains. Now the mobile device will acquire a new In this paper we are trying to emphasize on the
address (CoA) from the new access router. IAPP will concept of distribution of the mobility management
initiate a fast handoff (3) as discussed in section tasks to all layers of the OSI protocol stack. We
5.5.1. Finally when the handover is complete the introduced a notion of “Mobility Enabled Protocol
mobile node needs to update its CoA with in DNS, Stack” instead of mobility management solution on a