Performance Analysis of a Highly Available Home Agent in Mobile Networks
- 1 Communication Networks and Solutions Lab, Wireless Communication Cluster, MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2 Department of Information Systems, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
- 3 Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract
Problem statement: Network Mobility as a service is provided by the NEMO protocol in IPv6 environments. NEMO is an extension to MIPv6 and thus inherits the same reliability problems of MIPv6. MIPv6 is not reliable because the Home Agent (HA) is a single point of failure. In order to provide real-time services for MIPv6 networks, reliability should be considered as part of any high availability solution used to deploy Mobile IPv6 networks. Approach: Many approaches have been taken to solve the problem of HA as a single point of failure. In our proposed solution, failure detection and recovery is handled by the home agent. Therefore, recovery is transparent to the mobile network. Results: In this study we opted for using HA redundancy to provide a highly available home agent solution which achieves recovery times suitable for real-time applications. Conclusion: The results show that achieving high availability in IPv6 based mobile networks which support NEMO is possible.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2011.1388.1397
Copyright: © 2011 Abdelgadir Tageldin Abdelgadir, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Mohd Ariff Abdullah and Shariq Haseeb. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Home agent
- real time
- high availability
- Network Mobility Basic Support (NEMO)
- MIPv6
- Dynamic Home Agent Address Discovery (DHAAD)
- Virtual Home Agent Reliability Protocol (VHARP)
- Operating System (OS)