Mobility of Everything (MoE): An Integrated and Distributed Mobility Management

Abstract

Everything can be mobile, from end-hosts to applications. The need for mobility management is rising rapidly due to the increasing number of mobile devices and the advent of new types of mobile object, such as Internet of Things devices, connected vehicles, wearable devices, and virtual machines. In order to support various types of mobility, we propose an integrated and distributed mobility management approach, called Mobility of Everything (MoE). The MoE approach uses an object ID whose value is used to determine a specific edge switch that an object is connected with. In addition, the approach distributes binding information of an object ID and an IP address of edge switch throughout the network. We implement our approach on both an emulation environment and a testbed with software switches. Our evaluation results demonstrate that the MoE approach achieves seamless and scalable handover of end-hosts and applications.