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Abstract:
Today's mobility management schemes make use of a hierarchy of
tunnels from a relatively fixed anchor point, through one or more
intermediate nodes, to reach the MN's current point of attachment.
These schemes suffer from poor performance, scalability, and failure
modes due to the centralization and statefulness of the anchor
point(s). The dmm (Distributed Mobility Management) working group is
currently chartered to investigate alternative solutions that will
provide greater performance, scalability, and robustness through the
distribution of mobility anchors. This document is an input to the
dmm discussion. It outlines a problem statement for the existing
mobility management techniques and goes on to propose (high-level)
solutions to two of the most vexing problems: MN authentication and
mobility management in a fully distributed, flat (non-hierarchical)
access network. These two aspects are often treated separately in a
layered architecture, but we argue there are important advantages to
considering how these two functions can work in tandem to provide a
simple and robust framework for the design of a wireless Internet
Service Provider network.
Authors:
Pete McCann <peter.mccann@huawei.com>
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