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Multicast Mobility (multimob) (WG)

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Chair(s): Behcet Sarikaya Stig Venaas Internet Area Director(s): Ralph Droms Jari Arkko Brian Haberman Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko

Meeting Slides

• Agenda
• sourcemobility
• handoverrams
• handoverpfmip
• pimextension
• multicastservice
• igmp-mld-tuning
• handoverfacts

Internet-Drafts:

• Tuning the Behavior of IGMP and MLD for Routers in Mobile and Wireless Networks (29960 bytes)
• Mobile Multicast Sender Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains (36704 bytes)

Request for Comments:

• Base Deployment for Multicast Listener Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains (RFC 6224) (46105 bytes)

Charter (as of 2011-12-09)

The Multicast mobility (multimob) working group provides guidance
for supporting multicast in a mobile environment. The scope of work
will be limited to Proxy Mobile IPv6, IGMPv3/MLDv2 protocols and
listener mobility. The group will work on extensions of Proxy Mobile
IPv6 to improve its capability to handle multicast efficiently. Work
requiring modifications to IGMPv3/MLDv2 is out of scope in this
stage of this working group, however, as are modifications to
multicast routing protocols.

Specific goals for the group are:

- A solution to the tunnel convergence problem by separating
multicast routing from a mobility anchor. Possible techniques are
using native infrastructure, using a dedicated mobility anchor
etc.

- Mechanisms to optimize multicast traffic during a handover. Such
mechanisms may include context transfer functionality.

- Mechanisms needed to support multicast source mobility. Both any
source multicast and source specific multicast source mobility
will be covered.

- Document the configuration of IGMPv3/MLDv2 in mobile environments

The group shall primarily focus on Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) based
networks when looking at the first three items. It is possible but
not required that the solutions are applicable also for Mobile IPv6
(MIPv6) based networks.

For background, the PMIPv6 specification as defined in RFC 5213 does
not describe how to support multicast. Some forms of multicast
support can, however, be built in the involved nodes by using
existing capabilities of multicast protocols and the underlying
mobility protocols. The working group has already documented how
existing mechanisms can be used to support multicast, without
requiring any additions or changes to message types and parameters
specified in RFC 5213, and assuming an unmodified mobile host. The
current goals of the working group relate to improving the
efficiency of this base solution.

IGMPv3/MLDv2 has been specified for wired networks with shared links.
Mobile nodes have needs that are specific to wireless networks and
mobility (e.g. entering a dormant mode to conserve battery power,
minimizing the latency for joining and leaving a group in support of
movement).

In performing its work, the working group will work closely with
both the mobility community (NETEXT WG) and the multicast community
(MBONED WG). The group will consider both source specific multicast
and any source multicast multicast models.

Future work, subject to rechartering, may study/evaluate extensions
to IGMPv3/MLDv2 to support better operation in mobile environments.

Goals and Milestones:

Nov 2010		Initial version of a document on how to tune IGMPv3/MLDv2 for mobility
Apr 2011		Submit a document on how to tune IGMPv3/MLDv2 for mobility, for publication as either Informational or Best Current Practice
Jun 2011		Initial version of document on PMIPv6 routing optimizations to avoid tunnel convergence problem
Nov 2011		Initial version of document on PMIPv6 multicast source mobility solution
Nov 2011		Initial version of document on PMIPv6 handover optimizations
Jun 2012		Submit PMIPv6 routing optimizations document to IESG for publication as Internet Standard
Nov 2012		Submit PMIPv6 handover optimizations document to IESG for publication as Internet Standard
Nov 2012		Submit PMIPv6 multicast source mobility solution to IESG for publication as Internet Standard
Dec 2012		Decision to include additional optimization work involving extensions to IGMPv3 or MLDv2
Dec 2012		Recharter based on the above decisions (or close the group if no new work is needed)