Home agent redundancy and load balancing in mobile IPv6
Broadband communications
Perfect Simulations for Random Trip Mobility Models
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
Performance analysis of a highly available home agent in mobile networks
Proceedings of the 14th Communications and Networking Symposium
fHA: A flexible and distributed Home Agent architecture for Mobile-IP based networks
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Home Agents (HA) represent a single point of failure for Mobile IPv6-based networks. To overcome this problem many solutions have been published providing reliable HA architectures. These solutions require deploying redundant HAs on each sub-network. Although these solutions effectively mitigate this problem, they do not take into account the requirements of large networks with dozens of sub-networks. Deploying several HAs on each sub-network may be too expensive to deploy and to manage. In this paper we present a novel HA architecture that only requires a set of HAs for the whole network. Our basic idea is that the Mobile Node's location can be announced to exit routers, this way re-directing packets can be done without involving the HA. Our solution provides reliability and load balancing as the existing solutions. Finally, we validate our proposal through an analytical model and compare it against other proposals through a simulation.