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A hierarchical mobility management scheme based on software defined networking

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new paradigm which allows the network devices to be more programmable and easily controlled. SDN can be applied to improve the flexibility and performance of mobile networks. As a key problem of SDN-based mobile networks, the mobility management still cannot simultaneously support various different scenarios and has the limitations of high signaling cost and handover delay. In order to overcome these drawbacks of existing related protocols, we propose a SDN-based mobility management scheme named H-SMM by constructing a hierarchical architecture in control plane to support intra-domain and inter-domain handover scenarios at the same time. Then we design handover procedures to simplify intra-domain handover and optimize inter-domain handover respectively. In addition, the communication initiation procedure is also provided. Qualitative analysis shows H-SMM is an overall mobility management scheme. Calculative analysis indicates that H-SMM has lower signaling cost. Simulation results illustrate that the handover delay and the end to end delay of first packet in communication initiation are lower than contrast schemes. Moreover, our evaluation also shows that the above performance advantages of H-SMM will be more evident with the increasing of domain numbers and distance between domains.

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Acknowledgements

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1736216, 61472001, 61702231, U1405255), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB1400703), the Key Research and Development Plan Project of Jiangsu Province (BE2015136) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20170556).

We gratefully acknowledge Prof. Liangmin Wang, who pointed out the research direction, planned the progress and organized the paper. Under his guidance, Xing Yin designed the scheme, wrote the paper and performed the experiments. We also acknowledge Heng Pan for her innovation idea of constructing a hierarchical structure in the control plane. Furthermore, we acknowledge Shunrong Jiang for his modification of our paper.

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  1. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

    Xing Yin

  2. School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

    Xing Yin, Liangmin Wang & Shunrong Jiang

  3. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Security Technology for Industrial Cyberspace, Zhenjiang, China

    Xing Yin, Liangmin Wang & Shunrong Jiang

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This article is part of the Topical Collection: Special Issue on Software Defined Networking: Trends, Challenges and Prospective Smart Solutions

Guest Editors: Ahmed E. Kamal, Liangxiu Han, Sohail Jabbar, and Liu Lu

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Yin, X., Wang, L. & Jiang, S. A hierarchical mobility management scheme based on software defined networking. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 12, 310–325 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-017-0615-z

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