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A Network Mobility Management Architecture for a Heterogeneous Network Environment

Henrik Petander

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented with due permission of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for public examination and debate in Auditorium T3 at Helsinki University of Technology (Espoo, Finland) on the 14th of December, 2007, at 12 o'clock noon.

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Abstract

Network mobility management enables mobility of personal area networks and vehicular networks across heterogeneous access networks using a Mobile Router. This dissertation presents a network mobility management architecture for minimizing the impact of handoffs on the communications of nodes in the mobile network. The architecture addresses mobility in legacy networks without infrastructure support, but can also exploit infrastructure support for improved handoff performance. Further, the proposed architecture increases the efficiency of communications of nodes in the mobile network with counter parts in the fixed network through the use of caching and route optimization. The performance and costs of the proposed architecture are evaluated through empirical and numerical analysis. The analysis shows the feasibility of the architecture in the networks of today and in those of the near future.

This thesis consists of an overview and of the following 7 publications:

  1. Henrik Petander, Eranga Perera, Kun-chan Lan, Aruna Seneviratne, Measuring and improving the performance of network mobility management in IPv6 networks, in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 24, number 9, pp. 1671-1681, September 2006. © 2006 IEEE. By permission.
  2. Henrik Petander, Eranga Perera, Aruna Seneviratne, Multicasting with selective delivery: A SafetyNet for vertical handoffs, in Wireless Personal Communications, Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks, vol. 43, number 3, pp. 945-958, November 2007.
  3. Henrik Petander, Optimizing localized mobility management for make-before-break handoffs, in Proceedings of NEWCOM-ACoRN Joint Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 20-22 September 2006. © 2006 by author.
  4. Kun-chan Lan, Eranga Perera, Henrik Petander, Christoph Dwertmann, Lavy Libman, Mahbub Hassan, MOBNET: The design and implementation of a network mobility testbed for NEMO protocol, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2005), Chania, Greece, 18-21 September 2005, pp. 1-6. © 2005 IEEE. By permission.
  5. Sun Qian, Mu Lei, Henrik Petander, Kun-chan Lan, Mahbub Hassan, On securing dynamic home agent address discovery of on-board mobile router in mobile IPv6 networks, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2005), Capetown, South Africa, 03-06 May 2005. © 2005 IEEE. By permission.
  6. Eranga Perera, Henrik Petander, Aruna Seneviratne, Bandwidth fuelling for Network Mobility, in Proceedings of the Third IEEE and IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN 2006), Bangalore, India, 11-13 April 2006. © 2006 IEEE. By permission.
  7. Henrik Petander, Eranga Perera, Aruna Seneviratne, Yuri Ismailov, An experimental evaluation of Mobile Node based versus infrastructure based handoff schemes, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, 18-21 June 2007, pp. 1-4. © 2007 IEEE. By permission.

Keywords: mobility management, network mobility, mobile IP

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