Proposal on routing-based mobility architecture for ICN-based cellular networks

Abstract

Forthcoming 5G networks raise an important research issue of seamless mobility management of cellular and non-cellular networks. Adopting Information Centric Networking (ICN) architecture as common mobility management is promising because existing mobility management mechanisms are complicated and incur large signaling overhead. This paper designs a routing-based mobility architecture to provide seamless mobility for the both networks. The architecture consists of routing during longer duration and anchor-less forwarding during shorter duration. A main contribution of the paper is that the architecture is designed by carefully considering how to port it to cellular networks with as few modifications to them as possible.