Home agent load balancing in mobile ipv6 with efficient home agent failure detection and recovery

Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) is one of the most mature and widely accepted technologies for mobility support in IPv6 networks. In MIPv6, home agent acts as the anchor points of mobile nodes and is responsible for receiving data packets on behalf of them and tunneling the packets to the current points of attachment of the mobile nodes in the Internet. Two problems existing in the current MIPv6 scheme motivate the study of this paper. First, we do not have any proper load sharing mechanism for multiple HA deployment. Second, Home Agent failure detection in MIPv6 is very slow and there is no specified failure recovery mechanism. In this paper we propose a mechanism to address the above mentioned problems of load sharing and failure recovery while trying to reduce the time of home agent failure detection and recovery. We presented simulation results to demonstrate that our solution can fairly distribute loads among multiple home agents