A Micro Mobility Management Scheme in Wireless LAN Environments

무선 LAN환경에서 마이크로 이동성 지원 방안

  • 고광신 (성화대학 인터넷정보계열) ;
  • 차우석 (전북대학교 컴퓨터통계정보학) ;
  • 김형준 (한국전자통신연구) ;
  • 조기환 (전북대학교 전자정보공학부)
  • Published : 2004.04.01

Abstract

Mobile IP is a base protocol to support host mobility in IP-based wireless network. It is well known that the protocol contains two main delay factors on a handoff process; one is to detect a host movement, and the other is to register the host's current location to its home network. This paper examines Layer 2(L2) handoff procedure in the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN, and identifies these L2 triggers that can be usefully applied to Layer 3(L3) handoff. Then, the MCAA(Multiple-Casting using Anchor Agent) mechanism is proposed. It makes use of the L2 trigger and the network topology to construct an anchor agent dynamically, and the multiple-casting scheme to prevent an ongoing packet to be lost. Using a network simulator, the proposed mechanism has been evaluated the handoff delay and the packet lost point of view, in comparison with the regional registration protocol which is the most well known micro mobility support mechanism.

Mobile IP는 무선 네트워크에서 단말의 이동성을 지원하기 위한 대표적인 IP 기반 프로토콜이다. 이 프로토콜은 단말의 이동 사실을 탐지하는데 소요되는 지연과 자신의 새로운 이동 위치를 홈 네트워크에 등록하는 지연 등 핸드오프 과정에서 두 가지 주요 지연요소를 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 IEEE 802.11 무선 LAN 표준에 따른 2 계층 핸드오프 처리과정을 분석하여 3 계층 핸드오프에 유용하게 적용할 수 있는 L2 트리거를 정의한다. 또한 L2 트리거와 네트워크 위상 정보를 이용하여 앵커 에이전트를 동적으로 구성하고, 다중 전송(Multiple-Casting)을 이용하여 패킷 분실을 방지하는 MCAA(Multiple-Casting using Anchor Agent) 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법의 효율성을 분석하기 위해서 대표적인 마이크로 이동성 지원 기법인 Regional Registration 기법을 비교대상으로 핸드오프 지연과 패킷 분실 관점에서 분석 평가하였다.

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