MC Chapter5
MC Chapter5
Mobility Management
Mobility Management
• Used to trace physical user and subscriber mobile phone services
• Uninterrupted signal connectivity is maintained by using
i. Infrastructure management
ii. Location management and registration management by handoff
IP Mobility
• Set of mechanism that allow IP mobile node to move freely between
IP network
Components of Mobile IP
• Mobile node
• Home agent
• Foreign agent
Mobile IP process
1. Agent Discovery
a. Agent advertisement
b. Agent solicitation
2. Registration
3. Tunneling
Optimization
• IP packet has to travel long distance. This is known as triangular
routing
Optimization
• Optimization means direct communication will be build between MN
and FA
• Requires 4 types of messages
1. Binding request
2. Binding update
3. Binding acknowledgement
4. Binding warning
Optimization
• 4 messages when MN changes from one FA to other FA
Reverse tunneling
• Sometimes it is not feasible to send packets directly to internetwork
via a FA then at that time reverse tunneling is used
Reverse tunneling
• Used in following conditions:
1. Ingress filtering/Firewall
2. Multicast
3. Time to leave(TTL)
IPv6
• It enable MN to travel from one IP subnet to another IP subnet.
• Features of IPv6
1. Address auto configuration
2. Neighbor discovery
3. Extension headers
IPv6
• 2 entities require for mobile IP implementation
1. Home agent
2. Foreign agent
• Advantage
1. Supports IPsec protocol
2. Address allocation is done by device
• Disadvantage
1. Difficult to remember IP address
2. Difficult to use if IPv4 is in use
Types of Mobility
1. Macro Mobility
2. Micro Mobility
Macro Mobility
1. MIPv6(Mobile Internet Protocol version 6)