Abstract:
The Home Agent (HA) is a key point when
considering the performance of Mobile IPv6-based
networks. This paper presents the first steps towards
characterizing the load of a HA. This may be useful both
for researchers that aim to propose novel architectures
that improve the performance of the HAs and for ISPs
willing to deploy Mobile IPv6. To achieve our goals first
we analyzed the internal traffic of a medium-size
department. Then we reviewed the existing models and
we evaluated their applicability to this particular
scenario. Our results showed that the estimated load of a
HA serving a medium-size department (around 1500
hosts) is high with a maximum throughput of 262 Mbps.
