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    Network Mobility Management Challenges, Directions, and Solutions: An Architectural Perspective

    Al-Khalidi, Mohammed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1655-8514, Al-Zaidi, Rabab and Hammoudeh, Mohammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9735-2365 (2022) Network Mobility Management Challenges, Directions, and Solutions: An Architectural Perspective. Electronics, 11 (17). 2696.

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    Abstract

    Efficient mobility management solutions are essential to provide users with seamless connectivity and session continuity during movement. However, user mobility was not envisaged as one of the early Internet’s use cases due to the early adoption of destination based routing and the assumption that end-nodes are static. This has become a critical hinder for providing efficient mobility support. This paper presents the challenges, drivers, and solutions that aim to overcome the drawbacks of current mobility management approaches. Furthermore, it introduces a promising solution that builds on emerging path-based forwarding architectures that identify network links rather than end nodes. Delivery path information is stored inside the packet while forwarding is achieved by performing a simple set membership test rather than the current destination-based routing approach. Mobility management in these architectures simply requires partial recomputation of the delivery path allowing for efficient mobility support over an optimal path. Evaluation results show significant cost savings in terms of delivery paths and end-to-end packet delay when using a path forwarding architecture.

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