M&M: Multicast-based Architecture for Mobility Management

People

• Ahmed Helmy - Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Southern California (USC)



• Muhammad Jaseemuddin - Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada



• Ganesha Bhaskara - Electrical Engineering, USC

This project investigates problems of IP mobility management and efficient handoff for wireless (cellular and all-IP) networks. It addresses issues of address assignment, micro-mobility, handoff performance for mobile nodes.
This effort is currently being undertaken mainly at the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California (USC), and has been funded by Nortel (00-01).

A very related project by Ahmed Helmy "Efficient Provisioning for Services in Large-scale Wireless-Wired Networks" has recently been funded by Intel.

Another related project "Wireless Mobile and Distributed Networking System for Efficient Aircraft Engine Inspection and Maintenance" has recently been funded by Pratt & Whitney UTC Institute for Collaborative Engineering (PWICE) [by Ahmed Helmy in collaboration with USC/IMSC].

• Related Publications
  1. A. Helmy, M. Jaseemuddin, Ganesha Bhaskara, "Efficient Micro-Mobility using Intra-domain Multicast-based Mechanisms (M&M)", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), October 2002.
  2. A. Helmy, "State Analysis and Aggregation Study for Multicast-based Micro Mobility", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2002). May 2002, New York. (Longer version.) [Presentation Slides (.ppt)].
  3. A. Helmy, "A Multicast-based Protocol for IP Mobility Support", ACM SIGCOMM Second International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC 2000), Palo Alto, November 2000. (Longer version) [Presentation Slides (.ppt)].
  4. A. Helmy, "Multicast-based Architecture for IP Mobility: Simulation Analysis and Comparison with Basic Mobile IP", featured in Technology Research News (TRN) Journal, issue 1, June 21, 2000. [ ACM-LANL-NCSTRL-cs.NI/0006022].
  
  [Here is a library of topologies I have used for the simulations of M&M (NGC and TRN), in a format compatible with the network simulator (NS-2)].
  5. A. Helmy, M. Jaseemuddin, Ganesha Bhaskara, "Multicast-based Mobility: A Novel Architecture for Efficient Micro-Mobility", Feb. 03 (Under Submission to JSAC).
  6. Ganesha Bhaskara Multicast Based Micro-Mobility: Design and Analysis, M.S. Thesis, EE Dept, USC, Aug 02. [Advisor: Ahmed Helmy].
  7. A. Helmy, M. Jaseemuddin, "Efficient Micro-Mobility using Intra-domain Multicast-based Mechanisms (M&M)", USC-CS-TR-01-747, Aug 2001. (This is an older version of the CCR paper, kept for reference).
• Presentations:
  • A. Helmy, paper presentation "State Analysis and Aggregation for Multicast-based Micro Mobility" at the IEEE ICC, New York, NY, May 1, 2002.
  • A. Helmy, paper presentation "A Multicast-based Protocol for IP Mobility Support", at ACM NGC 2000, in Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, on November 9, 2000. [best viewed with Power Point '97]
  • A. Helmy, invited presentation "Research Directions in IP Mobility and Ad-hoc Networks: Integrating Ad-hoc Networks into the Internet (Vision and Challenges)" at the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), USC, March 29/30, 2001. [Research collaboration meeting with a delegation from the Graduate School of Information Technology and Telecommunications at the Inha University, Inchon, Korea],
  • "Multicast-based Architecture for IP Mobility: Analysis and Comparison with Mobile IP", Invited presentation at Nortel Networks Wireless Forum IX, in Ottawa, Canada, on October 31, 2000.
  • "IP Technology for Wireless Networks, University View", Invited talk at the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) National Communications Forum (NCF 2000) in Chicago, IL, on October 19, 2000.
• News Journals: Articles/Interviews:
  • Technology Research News. Article: "Multicast promises lighter wireless Internet", June 2000.