Cloud-native IP-based mobility management: a MIPv6 Home Agent standalone microservice design

The ever-increasing traffic and mobility events impose an unprecedented load on mobile networks. Meanwhile, the number of connected users and devices has been growing continuously; hence IPv6 is necessary to serve them. The mobility extension of IPv6 (Mobile IPv6) can also support and handle the rising demand for mobility management in the IP layer. At the same time, concepts like Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networks, and microservice architectures have changed the landscape of telecommunication services. In this paper, our prototype implementation is measured and evaluated: what containerization causes in case of different MIPv6-re1ated traffic types on the top of Kubernetes. Additionally, Kubernetes Container Network Interface types are compared for a microservice and container-based standalone Home Agent entity of a cloud-native Mobile IPv6 implementation.