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11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06)
pp. 136-141
Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications
Imed Romdhani, Napier University, UK
Jose Munoz, Napier University, UK
Hatem Bettahar, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
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While the Mobile IP protocol does not exclude the use
of multiple Home Agents (HAs), it does not impose any
particular model either. Recent solutions propose that
a mobile node uses multiple HAs located in different
physical links in his home network. However, no
architectural scheme is proposed either for unicast or
multicast communications. In this paper, we propose a
Hierarchical Home Agent architecture in which each
Home Agent (HA) is assigned a specific topological
level in its domain. The mobile node is notified about
such hierarchy and chooses the closest HA on a perconnection
basis. Our primary goal is to optimise both
unicast and multicast routing for mobile nodes. We
prove that our solution avoids redundant multicast
traffic in the home domain and it is easy to implement
using the current Mobile IP specification without extra
cost.
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Citation:
Imed Romdhani, Jose Munoz, Hatem Bettahar, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah,
"Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications,"
iscc,
pp. 136-141,
11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06),
2006
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