fP2P-HN: A P2P-Based Route Optimization Solution for Mobile IP and NEMO Clients

— Wireless technologies are rapidly evolving and the users are demanding the possibility of changing its point of attachment to the Internet (i.e. default router) without breaking the IP communications. This can be achieved by using Mobile IP or NEMO, however mobile clients must forward its data packets through its Home Agent (HA) in order to communicate with its peers. This sub-optimal route (lack of route optimization) reduces considerably the communications performance, increases the delay and the infrastructure load. Additionally, since the HA must forward all the mobile clients’ data packets, it can become the bottleneck of such networks. In this paper we present the fP2P-HN architecture, a P2P-based solution that allows deploying several HAes throughout the Internet. With this architecture a mobile client can select a closer HA to its topological position in order to reduce the delay of the paths towards its peers. Furthermore it incorporates flexible HAes that, as we will se...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Rubén Cuevas Rumín, Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Ángel Cuevas, Carmen Guerrero
• Keywords: Communications, Data Packets, FP2P-HN Architecture, ICC 2009, Mobile Client