DMM Working Group Jaehwoon Lee
Internet-Draft Dongguk University
Intended status: Informational Younghan Kim
Expires: December 17, 2015 Soongsil University
June 18, 2015
PMIPv6-based Distributed Mobility Management
draft-jaehwoon-dmm-pmipv6-04
Abstract
Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is the network-based mobility management
protocol where access network supports the mobility of a mobile node
on behalf of the MN. In PMIPv6, the location information of the MN
should be registered to Localized Mobility Anchor and communication
must be established via the LMA. Therefore, the performance can be
degraded due to traffic concentration and congestion possibility.
One method to overcome the above problems is to exploit the
distributed mobility management (DMM) mechanism to distribute the
LMA function to all access routers within the PMIPv6 domain. This
document presents a fully distributed mobility management mechanism
in PMIPv6-based network. In this mechanism, there is no need for
the location management function to register the location of the MN.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.................................................3
2. Conventions and Terminology..................................3
2.1. Conventions used in this document........................3
2.2. Terminology ............................................3
3. Protocol Operation...........................................3
4. Security Considerations......................................7
5. IANA Considerations..........................................7
6. References....................................................7
Author's Address.................................................7
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1. Introduction
Centralized mobility management protocols such as MIPv6 [1] and
PMIPv6 [2] have several problems such as single-node failure,
congestion possibility, scalability issues and non-optimal
routes [3]. One method to resolve such problems is to use the
distributed mobility management (DMM) mechanism to distribute mobile
agent function to access routers [4]. Especially, in PMIPv6-based
DMM, when an MN moves one network to another, a new access router
that the MN moves and connects should know (1) whether the MN firstly
enters the PMIPv6 domain and (2) the address information of the LMA
for the MN when the access router knows that the MN moves from
another network.
This document presents a fully distributed mobility management
mechanism which does not need the control function for managing
MN-LMA address binding information.
2. Conventions and Terminology
2.1. Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL","SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [5].
2.2 Terminology
TBD.
3. Protocol Operation
Figure 1 shows the message exchange procedure between network
entities to provide fully distributed mobility management in PMIPv6
environment presented in this document. A network prefix "PREF" is
allocated to the PMIPv6 domain. However, a different sub-network
prefix belonging to the same network prefix "PREF" is allocated to
a different mobility access gateway (MAG) in PMIPv6 domain.
For example, a sub-network prefix "PREF1" belonging to "PREF" is
allocated to MAG1 and a different sub-network prefix "PREF2"
belonging to the same "PREF" is allocated to MAG2. Even though a
different sub-network prefix is allocated to a different MAG, all
MAGs advertise the same network prefix "PREF" through the interfaces
providing PMIPv6 service.
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MN MAG1 MAG2 MAG3 CN
| | | | |
|*** L2 attachment ***>| | | |
|<----- RA(PREF) ------| | | |
|---DHCP request msg-->| | | |
|<--DHCP reponse msg---| | | |
| (MN's address) | | | |
(Configure IPv6 address) | | | |
|<-------------------- exchange IP traffic ------------------->|
(Move from MAG1 to MAG2) | | | |
|************ L2 attachment **************>| | |
|<-------------- RA(PREF) -----------------| | |
|--------------- IP packet --------------->| | |
| | (packet buffering) | |
| |<----DPBU msg------| | |
| (create BCE and est. tunnel) | | |
| |-----DPBA msg----->| | |
| | (create BUL and est. tunnel)| |
| |<====IP packet=====| | |
| |--------------- IP packet ------------>|
(Move from MAG2 to MAG3) | | | |
| | (packet buffering) | |
| |<----DPBRU msg-----| | |
| |----DPBRA msg----->| | |
|****************** L2 attachment ******************>| |
|<------------------- RA (PREF) ---------------------| |
|------------------- IP pkt ------------------------>| |
| | (pkt bufferring) |
| |<-- exchange DPBU/DPBA msg ->| |
| |<========= IP packet ========| |
| |-------------- IP packet ------------->|
(a) MN to CN packet transmission scenario
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MN MAG1 MAG2 MAG3 CN
| | | | |
|*** L2 attachment ***>| | | |
|<----- RA(PREF) ------| | | |
|---DHCP request msg-->| | | |
|<--DHCP reponse msg---| | | |
| (MN's address) | | | |
(Configure IPv6 address) | | | |
|<-------------------- exchange IP traffic ------------------->|
(Move from MAG1 to MAG2) | | | |
| |<----------- IP packet ----------------|
| (packet buffering) | | |
|************ L2 attachment **************>| | |
|<-------------- RA(PREF) -----------------| | |
| |<----DPBU msg------| | |
| (create BCE and est. tunnel) | | |
| |-----DPBA msg----->| | |
| | (create BUL and est. tunnel)| |
| |=====IP packet====>| | |
|<--------------- IP packet ---------------| | |
(Move from MAG2 to MAG3) | | | |
| | (packet buffering) | |
| |<----DPBRU msg-----| | |
| |<= Buffered IP pkt=| | |
| (packet bufffering) | | |
| |<--- FLUSH msg ----| | |
| |----DPBRA msg----->| | |
|****************** L2 attachment ******************>| |
|<------------------- RA (PREF) ---------------------| |
| |<-- exchange DPBU/DPBA msg ->| |
| |==== buffered IP packet ====>| |
| |====== IP packet ===========>| |
|<----------------- IP packet -----------------------| |
(b) CN to MN packet transmission scenario
Figure 1: Message exchange scenario
When an MN firstly enters the PMIPv6 domain and connects to a MAG
(say, MAG1), MAG1 transmits to the MN a Router Advertisement (RA)
message by setting "M (Managed address configuration)" flag in
order to configure an address to the MN by using the stateful
address configuration method [6]. The network prefix "PREF" is set
to the prefix option information field in the RA message. The MN
having received the RA message transmits the dynamic host
configuration protocol (DHCP) request message to the MAG1 [7]. The
MAG1 considers that the MN firstly connects to the PMIPv6 domain and
transmits the DHCP response message containing an address belonging
to the "PREF1" to the MN. The MN sets the address contained in the
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DHCP response message to its interface. After that, the MN can
communicate to a CN within the Internet.
When the MN moves MAG1 to MAG2 while communicating with a CN, the
MAG1 begins to perform the LMA function for the MN and stores
packets sent from the CN into the buffer. The MAG1 stores the MM's
information into its Binding Cache Entry (BCE). When the MN connects
to MAG2, the MAG2 transmits the RA message containing network prefix
set to "PREF" to the MN. The MN having received the RA message
considers that it connects to the same network by using the "PREF"
network prefix in prefix information option of RA message. It
continues to use the address configured previously and transmits IP
packets as usual. MAG2 checks the first packet transmitted by the MN.
If the first packet contains the DHCP request packet, then MAG2
considers that the MN firstly connects to the PMIPv6 domain.
Otherwise, MAG2 considers that the MN moves from another MAG area and
creates the Binding Update List (BUL) for the MN. And then, MAG2
transmits the Distributed Proxy Binding Update (DPBU) message. The
source address of the packet containing the DPBU message is set to
the address of the MAG2 (say, Proxy-CoA2) and the destination address
is set to the address of the MN. Here, MAG2 can know the address of
the MN by using the source address of the IP packet sent by the MN.
Moreover, MAG2 stores packets sent by the MN. DPBU message is
transmitted to the MAG1 through the Internet topologically correct
routing path. MAG1 having received the DPBU message stores the
Proxy-CoA2 address to its BCE for the MN, establishes the tunnel with
MAG2, and transmits the Distributed Proxy Binding Acknowledgement
(DPBA) message to MAG2. The source and destination addresses of the
packet containing the DPBA message are set to the address of MAG1
(say, Proxy-CoA1) and Proxy-CoA2, respectively. The DPBA message
contains the address of the MN in its option field. MAG2 receiving
the PBA message stores the Proxy-CoA1 address to its BUL and
establishes the tunnel with MAG1. And then, MAG1 transmits the
packets stored in the buffer to MAG2, and MAG2 would the received
packets to the MN. After that, the MN continues to communicate with
the CN.
Packets sent from MAG1 to MAG2 might be lost if the MN moves from
MAG2 to another MAG (MAG3 for example in this draft). It is because
MAG1 cannot know the fact that the MN moves and connects to MAG3.
In order to avoid the packet loss, When MAG2 knows to disconnect to
the MN, MAG2 transmits the Distributed Proxy Binding Release Update
(DPBRU) message to MAG1. Moreover, MAG2 transmits packets for the MN
to MAG1 again. When MAG1 receives the DPBRU message, MAG1 transmits
FLUSH message to the MAG2 and stores packets sent from the CN in its
buffer. MAG2 having received the FLUSH message considers that the
message is the final packet sent from the MAG1 and retransmits the
FLUSH message. And then, MAG2 removes the entry related the MN in the
BUL. MAG1 having received the FLUSH message having sent from MAG2
considers that themessage is the final packet sent from MAG2. MAG1
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transmits the Distributed Proxy Binding Release Acknowledgement
(DPBRA) message to MAG2. When MAG1 receives the DPBU message from
MAG3, MAG1 transmits the DPBA message to MAG3, update its BCE related
to the MN, transmits the stored packets sent from MAG2, and then
transmits packets sent from the CN.
4. Security Considerations
TBD
5. IANA Considerations
TBD
6. References
[1] D. Johnson, C. Perkins and J. Arkko, "Mobility Support in
IPv6", IETF RFC 3775, June 2004.
[2] S. Gundavelli, K. Leung, V. Devarapalli, K. Chowdhury and
B. Patil, "Proxy Mobile IPv6", IETF RFC 5213, Aug. 2008.
[3] H. Chan, D. Liu, P. Seite, H. Yokota and J. Korhonen,
"Requirements for Distributed Mobility Management",
draft-ietf-dmm-requirements-03 (work in progress), Dec. 2012.
[4] IETF dmm working group,
http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmm/charter.
[5] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[6] T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Sompson and H. Soliman, "Neighbor
Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), IETF RFC 4861, Sep. 2007.
[7] R. Droms, J. Bound, B. Volz, T. Lemon, C. Perkins and M. Carney,
"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)",
IETF RFC 3315, July 2003.
Author's Address
Jaehwoon Lee
Dongguk University
26, 3-ga Pil-dong, Chung-gu
Seoul 100-715, KOREA
Email: jaehwoon@dongguk.edu
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Younghan Kim
Soongsil University
369, Sangdo-ro, Dongjak-gu,
Seoul 156-743, Korea
Email: younghak@ssu.ac.kr
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