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PMIPv6-based distributed anchoring
draft-bernardos-dmm-distributed-anchoring-06

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
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Authors Carlos J. Bernardos , Juan-Carlos Zúñiga
Last updated 2016-03-11 (Latest revision 2015-09-08)
Replaced by draft-bernardos-dmm-pmipv6-dlif
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Abstract

Distributed Mobility Management solutions allow for setting up networks so that traffic is distributed in an optimal way and does not rely on centralized deployed anchors to provide IP mobility support. There are many different approaches to address Distributed Mobility Management, as for example extending network-based mobility protocols (like Proxy Mobile IPv6), or client-based mobility protocols (as Mobile IPv6), among others. This document follows the former approach, and proposes a solution based on Proxy Mobile IPv6 in which mobility sessions are anchored at the last IP hop router (called distributed gateway). The distributed gateway is an enhanced access router which is also able to operate as local mobility anchor or mobility access gateway, on a per prefix basis. The draft focuses on the required extensions to effectively support simultaneously anchoring several flows at different distributed gateways. This draft introduces the concept of distributed logical interface (at the distributed gateway), which is a software construct that allows to easily hide the change of anchor from the mobile node. Additionally, the draft describes how to provide session continuity in inter-domain scenarios in which dynamic tunneling or signaling between distributed gateways from different operators is not allowed.

Authors

Carlos J. Bernardos
Juan-Carlos Zúñiga

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