Distributed Group-Based Mobility Management Scheme in Wireless Body Area Networks

Moneeb Gohar, Hind Ahmed M. Alrubaish, Ruba Suliman M. Alowaid, Jin-Ghoo Choi
2017 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing  
For group-based mobility management in 6LoWPAN-based wireless body area networks (WBAN), some schemes using the Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIP) have been proposed. However, the existing PMIP-based mobility schemes tend to induce large registration delay and handover delay. To overcome such limitations, we propose a new distributed group-based mobility management scheme, in which the Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) function is implemented by each Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and the handover operation is
more » ... formed between two neighboring MAGs without the help of LMA. Besides, each MAG maintains the information of the group of mobile sensors and aggregates the Authentication-Authorization-Accounting (AAA) query messages for a group of mobile sensors as a "single" message to decrease the control overhead. By numerical analysis, it is shown that the proposed scheme can reduce the registration and handover delays, compared to the existing PMIP-based mobility schemes.
doi:10.1155/2017/4180801 fatcat:hwggrfbg4fa2zclpdb4j35a4pi