An End-to-End Mobility Support Mechanism based on mSCTP

mSCTP를 이용한 종단간 이동성 지원 방안

  • 장문정 (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터학과) ;
  • 이미정 (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터학) ;
  • 고석주 (경북대학교 컴퓨터학과)
  • Published : 2004.08.01

Abstract

Recently, mSCTP (Mobile SCTP) has been proposed as a transport layer approach for supporting mobility. mSCTP is based on the ‘multi-homing’ feature of Stream Control Transmission Protocol(SCTP), and utilize the functions to dynamically add or delete IP addresses of end points to or from the existing connectionin order to support mobility. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to determine when to add or delete an W address, utilizing the link layer radio signal strength information in order to enhance the performance of mSCTP We also propose a mechanism for a mobile node to initiate the change of data delivery path based on link layer radio signal strength information. In addition, if it takes long time to acquire new data path, we propose an approach for reducing handover latency. The simulation results show that the performance of proposed transport layer mobility support mechanism is competitive compared to the traditional network layer mobility supporting approach. Especially, when the moving speed of mobile node is fast, it shows better performance than the traditional network layer approaches.

최근 트랜스포트 계층에서 이동성을 지원하기 위한 방안으로 mSCTP가 제안되었다. mSCTP는 SCTP의 멀티호밍 특성을 기반으로 하며, 노드의 이동성을 지원하기 위해 SCTP 커넥션의 종단점에 매핑되는 IP 주소를 동적으로 추가ㆍ삭제하는 기능을 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 mSCTP의 성능 향상을 위해 2계층 정보를 이용하여 새로운 IP 주소를 추가하거나 이전 IP 주소를 삭제하는 시점을 결정하는 방안과 이동 노드에서 데이타 전송 경로 변경을 결정하는 방안을 제안하였다. 또한, 새로운 데이타 경로를 획득하는 시간이 길어지는 경우 핸드오버 지연을 줄이기 위한 방안을 제안하였다 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안하는 방안이 네트워크 계층의 이동성 지원과 대등한 성능을 보임을 확인하였고, 이동 노드의 속도가 빠를 때는 네트워크 계층에서의 이동성 지원 방안보다 더 나은 성능을 제공함을 볼 수 있었다.

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