Dynamic IP Paging: An Advanced Location Management for the Mobile Internet

IP paging aims to reduce power drain and signaling overhead of dormant mobile hosts and so to enhance the scalability of the mobile Internet. Previous IP paging schemes do not, however, scale well adhering to the static location update algorithm. This static approach accompanies signaling and computation overhead even with the costly optimization of the paging area. Excluding the shortcomings of the static scheme, we introduce dynamic IP paging which is simple and scalable, while being adaptable to time-varying patterns of each mobile host. This paper covers the architecture models and protocols based on Mobile IPv6, as well as weighted dynamic algorithms. The Simulation results show the cost efficiency of the dynamic location update algorithm over realistic call and mobility traces.