随着智能手机及其应用的快速发展,以用户为中心的移动性管理成为未来移动互联网络面临的挑战。文章从过程、功能和不同实现方式的角度分析移动性管理技术的机理;在此基础上,研究未来移动互联网络对分布式新型移动性管理架构的需求及移动性管理架构的特点,介绍一种基于SDN的移动性管理架构,并探讨未来移动性管理的一些研究方向。
User-centric mobility management will be a challenge in future mobile internet with the rapid development of smart phones and various applications. This paper analyzes mobility management in respect of its procedure, functions and different realization methods. Based on the general functions of mobility management, it studies the demands and features of distributed mobility management, introduces the SDN-based mobility management architecture, and discusses some future research directions.