Location-Awareness Management in IP-based IMT Network Platform (IP²)

IP², as an extended concept of the next generation IMT network, is a concept of basically supporting mobility using two steps of IP address (i.e, IPha (IP Host address) and IPra (IP routing address)) in IP backbone network. Current IP² system has a shortcoming of excess usage of network resources caused by sending paging messages to all cells in LA (Location Area) in paging procedure. Considering the evolving direction of network, which is taking mobility with various speed and integration of devices into consideration, this shortcoming must be overcome. In this paper, we proposed a method to reduce time and memory for paging by maintaining current information of MN (Mobile Node) not in Active state with proxy server. Performance evaluation based on NS-2 simulations has shown that the efficiency of network resources is improved in the proposed method.