Traditional centralized mobility management protocols have several problems such as overload, single point of failure, non-optimized data path, and scalability due to the concentration of both data and signaling messages at an anker point. To relieve these limitations, distributed mobility management mechanisms are actively studied by the IETF.
In this paper, analysis of traffic characteristics in the distributed mobility management mechanism is conducted. In the developed simulation network model, several mobile nodes are randomly moving among MAAR nodes and generate multimedia traffic including UDP traffic, voice call, HTTP web browsing, e-mail, remote login session by Telnet, FTP file transfer, database access, and network file print.