Dynamic MAP Selection Mechanism for HMIPv6

Abstract

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 management(HMIPv6) which is drawn up by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) utilizes the Mobile Anchor Point (MAP) to reduce the considerable number of binding update messages among the mobile node, correspondent node, and the mobile node's home agent. According to the HMIPv6 mechanism, the MAP of higher layer can efficiently reduce the frequency of binding update messages; it will have higher loading of service and become the bottleneck of the whole network. Because the MAP's bandwidth of services is finite and if MAP serves as the gateway at the same time, the whole network will be crashed due to overloading. This research proposes a MAP selection mechanism that takes the mobile node's particular characteristics which include the mobility velocity and quantity of communication services into consideration, the research can manage MAPs efficiently. Besides, the research also designs the MAP Load Balance mechanism to avoid the network crash due to the overloaded MAP.