Network based mobility management protocol for ethernet passive optical networks

  • Authors:

  • Hazem Ahmed;Samuel Pierre;Alejandro Quintero

  • Affiliations:

  • École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, PQ, Canada;École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, PQ, Canada;École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, PQ, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the third ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

With increasing demand on bandwidth and mobile media applications, pressures upon network providers to provide more bandwidth to users and better Quality of Service (QoS) is increasing. For example, High Definition (HD) Video on Demand (VoD) streaming requires an average of 10 Mb/sec per user. Meeting these needs through the use of fiber optic networks to backhaul the traffic is essential, since fiber optic networks provide bandwidth measured at a rate of Gb/sec. However, most mobility management protocols are not built to handle fiber optic networks. Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) is the dominant fiber optic network in the market due to its simplicity and cost of deployment. This paper describes how EPON can be used effectively to meet the need for increased bandwidth and handoff demands of mobile terminals. This paper studies Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) as the dominant network-based localized mobility management (Netlmm) protocol. Vehicle Ad Hoc Network (VANET) amplifies the handoff problems due to its unique characteristics. Hence, the issues and challenges of using the EPON network with PMIPv6 will be analyzed. Finally, recommendations will be established to optimize the usage of EPON with local mobility management protocols. This research shows by means of analysis the need for new protocols to support fast mobile IP optimization and then propose a solution that is tailored for EPON and analyze the proposed solution mathematically.