Master Thesis - 2001

Recently, as the Internet plays a great role in our life, it is desired that mobile communication systems are more familiar with it, and an IP-based mobile communication network has much attention. In such a network, Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) is expected as a mobile communication control method, which introduces a Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) so that the network can manage mobile terminals without floods of signaling message.

In this paper, we propose a mobile communication control method to overcome above problems. It utilizes the speed of mobile terminals as a metric to guess their mobility type, and achieves a mobility-based terminal management to reduce signaling messages without load concentration at any particular MAPs. That is, it enables networks to manage a mobile terminal by a feasible MAP along its mobility scenario in order to minimize the network management cost. Finally, we show that the proposed method works effectively by simulation experiments.