An Efficient Distributed Mobility Management Scheme Based on PMIPv6

Distributed mobility management is considered as new trend of developing mobility management scheme to address the issue that people use Internet resources in a much more aggressive way and last for longer durations involving in dramatically increasing traffic volumes. The traditional mobility management schemes such as Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) have hardly taken this issue into account. In this paper, we make an improvement based on PMIPv6 to propose a network based distributed mobility management scheme called D-PMIPv6. The basic idea of D-PMIPv6 is to split the control and data plane of traditional mobility anchor. We design the basic architecture, handover procedure as well as mobility anchor decision procedure. Finally numerical results are presented.