One of the issues in designing a mobile network with MR-HA bi-directional tunnel is to solve the route optimization problem in the nested mobile networks. Since the aggregated hierarchy of mobile networks becomes a single nested mobile network, in order to forward packets to the nested mobile network nodes, multiple levels of bi-directional nested tunnels are required. However, the multiple levels of bi-directional tunnels lead to an undesirable overhead. We propose a hierarchical mechanism that allows direct packet tunneling between HA and MR without nested tunnels.
Citation:
Dongkeun Lee, Keecheon Kim, Moonhae Kim, "Hierarchical Route Optimization for Nested Mobile Network," aina, vol. 1, pp.225, 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'04) Volume 1, 2004