HAWAII: a domain-based approach for supporting mobility in wide-area wireless networks

  • Authors:
  • Ramachandran Ramjee;Kannan Varadhan;Luca Salgarelli;Sandra R. Thuel;Shie-Yuan Wang;Thomas La Porta

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ;Procket Networks, Inc., Milpitas, CA;Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ;Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ;National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

  • Venue:
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Mobile IP is the current standard for supporting macromobility of mobile hosts. However, in the case of micromobility support, there are several competing proposals. In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of HAWAII, a domain-based approach for supporting mobility. HAWAII uses specialized path setup schemes which install host-based forwarding entries in specific routers to support intra-domain micromobility. These path setup schemes deliver excellent performance by reducing mobility related disruption to user applications. Also, mobile hosts retain their network address while moving within the domain, simplifying quality-of-service (QoS) support. Furthermore, reliability is achieved through maintaining soft-state forwarding entries for the mobile hosts and leveraging fault detection mechanisms built in existing intra-domain routing protocols. HAWAII defaults to using Mobile IP for macromobility, thus providing a comprehensive solution for mobility support in wide-area wireless networks.