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Scalability and Performance Analysis of Multi-Level Hierarchy in IP Micro-Mobility Management

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This paper presents a study on the benefits of multi-level hierarchy for scalable mobility management in the wireless mobile IP context. Micro-mobility management is considered. The analysis took advantage of the locality in movement and call activities of mobile users. It was discovered that whether multi-level hierarchy is beneficial or not depends on the type of address management employed in the mobility management. When hierarchical addressing structure is used in a micro-mobility region, the system scales with more levels of hierarchy, but if the address structure used is not hierarchical, multi-level hierarchy is less scalable because the root node presents a bottleneck to the system.

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  1. E. N. Onwuka
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Onwuka, E.N., Niu, Z., Tanabe, S. et al. Scalability and Performance Analysis of Multi-Level Hierarchy in IP Micro-Mobility Management. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 11, 71–78 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:IJWI.0000034539.79336.cc

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