TITLE:
Track Paging an Optimal Method for Minimizing Paging and Signaling Cost in Mobile IP
AUTHORS:
Tania Baghaie
KEYWORDS:
Mobile Node; Paging; Registration; Home Agent; Foreign Agent; Binding
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.1 No.4,
October
11,
2013
ABSTRACT: Mobile IP is an Internet standards
protocol, which enhances the existing Internet Protocol (IP) to accommodate
mobility. In mobile IP protocol, to find the exact location of mobile node for transferring incoming
packets to them has a lot of signaling cost. So increasing the performance and decreasing the
signaling cost are challenges of this protocol. Using the paging mechanism, its
operation is in such a way that it can reduce Relocation update cost and save
on power consumption in a mobile node. In addition, it can improve the performance of
network by decreasing the need to register an idle mobile node. Mobile IP,
currently does not support paging. Therefore, after introducing the mobile IP
protocol and reporting related works, this paper will try to introduce a way to
add paging support to the Mobile IP. Track paging is proposed to reduce the
number of registration message of an idle mobile node to the mobile node’s home
agent by waiving broad casting method and paging area size. Analytical results
show that Track paging can significantly improve the total signaling cost of
MIP vs. previous methods. Results also show that specifying the optimal paging
area is critical in saving signaling cost of a MIP with paging support.