Dynamic load balancing among multiple home agents for MIPv6

Hanwen Zhang; Yujun Zhang; Chao Ma; Yi Sun; Zhongcheng Li

doi:10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625687

Dynamic load balancing among multiple home agents for MIPv6

Hanwen Zhang^*, Yujun Zhang, Chao Ma, Yi Sun, Zhongcheng Li

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In MIPv6, the home agent (HA) is the key entity to ensure a mobile node's (MN) reachability. A single HA on the home link will become a performance bottleneck. In order to enhance service availability and improve system performance, it is necessary to configure multiple HAs on the home link and efficiently balance load among these HAs. This paper proposes a dynamic multiple HA load balancing mechanism based on active overload prevention (DHALAOP). The solution actively prevents HA from overloading in advance, rather than just passively transferring excess load among HAs as previous load balancing mechanisms do. A novel dynamic weight load evaluation algorithm is introduced to provide the basis for optimal load balancing decision. In addition, DHALAOP utilizes single HA mirror image and load slicing scheme to achieve the transparency of load balancing and eliminate unnecessary additional overhead. The theoretical analysis results show that DHALAOP can be more efficient in enhancing service availability and improving system performance as compared with the previous mechanisms. At the same time it introduces a lower signaling cost.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, ISCC 2008
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	604-609
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424427031
ISBN (Print)	9781424427024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625687
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco Duration: 6 Jul 2008 → 9 Jul 2008

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Other	13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008
Country/Territory	Morocco
City	Marrakech
Period	6/07/08 → 9/07/08

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Zhang, H, Zhang, Y, Ma, C, Sun, Y & Li, Z 2008, Dynamic load balancing among multiple home agents for MIPv6. in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, ISCC 2008., 4625687, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 604-609, 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 6/07/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625687

Dynamic load balancing among multiple home agents for MIPv6. / Zhang, Hanwen; Zhang, Yujun; Ma, Chao et al.
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, ISCC 2008. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008. p. 604-609 4625687.

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