Performance analyses of DHT-based mobility management schemes
Jian Yuan · 2011
Peer-to-peer(P2P) based management schemes have been used for mobility management,but there have been no systemic analyses of such schemes.This study analyzes the similarities and differences of P2P network and mobility management systems to show that the value of P2P networks for mobility management is distributed hash table(DHT) based information spreading.A performance analysis model is used to compare the performance,load balancing and scalability of such schemes with the traditional mobile Internet protocol(IP) mechanisms.Simulations of the effects of the system parameters on the system performance show that DHT-based mobility management schemes improve the load balancing and user scalability compared with traditional mechanisms,but have deficiencies in query properties and network scalability.The key to designing such schemes is to reduce the effects of logical inconsistencies and physical topologies on the mobility management.