Mobile IP

Author

Perkins, Charles E.

Author_Institution

Sun Microsyst., USA

Volume

35

Issue

5

fYear

1997

fDate

5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

99

Abstract

Mobile IP has been designed within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to serve the needs of the burgeoning population of mobile computer users who wish to connect to the Internet and maintain communications as they move from place to place. The basic protocol is described, with details given on the three major component protocols: agent advertisement, registration, and tunneling. Then route optimization procedures are outlined, and further topics of current interest are described. The available tunneling mechanisms are shown, which the home agent uses to forward datagrams from the home network to the mobile computer. Having covered the details of the base mobile IP specification, we then describe further protocol messages which help to decrease the inefficiency associated with inserting the home agent in the routing path of data destined for mobile computers. Finally, we summarize and discuss the current problems facing mobile IP, as well as a few areas of active protocol development

Keywords

Internet; data communication; land mobile radio; laptop computers; notebook computers; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; IETF; Internet; Internet Engineering Task Force; agent advertisement; base mobile IP specification; datagrams; home agent; home network; laptop computers; mobile IP; mobile computer; mobile computer users; notebook computers; protocol; protocol messages; registration; route optimization; routing path; tunneling; Computer networks; Design engineering; Home automation; Home computing; Internet; Maintenance engineering; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Protocols; Tunneling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.592101

Filename

592101