Mobility management based SDN-IPv6 Routing Header

Mobile networks are moving into the 5G which is envisaged to face various complexity of network management caused by the intensifying data traffic demand, diverse wireless environments, and multiple service necessities. The requirements are strong to propose new network architecture aiming to meet heterogeneous services demands coming from various technologies such as LTE, WiFi and beyond. It is then challenging to tackle the mobility management and more specifically vertical handovers which aim to maintain ongoing session. As a proposed technology, Software-defined network (SDN) that permits network operators to easily introduce new services and to simplify network management. Adding to this, Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) which is emerging as a new trend to blueprint future mobile network architectures in order to overcome the centralized aspect of the current mobile network. Due to the foreseen domination of IPv6, a combined solution is discussed to simplify users' mobility and to assure the QoS of different applications. Based on SDN and DMM, IPv6 Routing Header will be the main suggested solution to guarantee mobility management in heterogeneous network.