Distributed Mobility Management: Current Practices and Gap Analysis
RFC 7429
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Liu, Ed.
Request for Comments: 7429 China Mobile
Category: Informational JC. Zuniga, Ed.
ISSN: 2070-1721 InterDigital
P. Seite
Orange
H. Chan
Huawei Technologies
CJ. Bernardos
UC3M
January 2015
Distributed Mobility Management: Current Practices and Gap Analysis
Abstract
This document analyzes deployment practices of existing IP mobility
protocols in a distributed mobility management environment. It then
identifies existing limitations when compared to the requirements
defined for a distributed mobility management solution.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Functions of Existing Mobility Protocols . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. DMM Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2. IP Flat Wireless Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2.1. Host-Based IP DMM Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2.2. Network-Based IP DMM Practices . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3. Flattening 3GPP Mobile Network Approaches . . . . . . . . 15
5. Gap Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1. Distributed Mobility Management - REQ1 . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2. Bypassable Network-Layer Mobility Support for Each
Application Session - REQ2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.3. IPv6 Deployment - REQ3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.4. Considering Existing Mobility Protocols - REQ4 . . . . . 23
5.5. Coexistence with Deployed Networks/Hosts and Operability
across Different Networks - REQ5 . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.6. Operation and Management Considerations - REQ6 . . . . . 23
5.7. Security Considerations - REQ7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.8. Multicast Considerations - REQ8 . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.9. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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1. Introduction
Existing network-layer mobility management protocols have primarily
employed a mobility anchor to ensure connectivity of a mobile node by
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