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Mobility support in IPv6

Year: 1996

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: IP version 6 (1Pv6) is being designed within the IETF as a replacement for the current version of the IP protocol used in the Internet (1Pv4).We have designed protocol enhancements for 1Pv6, known as Mobile 1Pv6, that allow transparent routing ofiPv6 packets to mobile nodes, taking advantage of the opportunities made possible by the design of a new version of IP.In Mobile IPv6, each mobile node is always identified by its home address, regardless of its current point of attachment to the Internet.While away from its home IP subnet, a mobile node is also associated with a care-of address, which indicates the mobile node's current location.Mobile 1Pv6 enables any 1Pv6 node to learn and cache the care-of address associated with a mobile node's home address, and then to send packets destined for the mobile node directly to it at this care-of address using an 1Pv6 Routing header.

Source: ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)

DOI: 10.1145/236387.236400

Authors: Charles E. Perkins, David B. Johnson

Institutions: IBM (United States), IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Materiel Command