Micro-HIP A HIP-Based Micro-Mobility Solution

Smooth, seamless and secure handover for mobile nodes in heterogeneous wireless IP networks is the target of future mobility management. Complete mobile management solutions involve not only the physical and data link layers, but also the network layer and above. Mobility management can be classified into two categories, macro-mobility management and micro-mobility management. The former handles the movement of a node between any two IP addresses and the latter focuses on the handover between different access points under the same domain. Mobile IP is a widely discussed macro-mobility management protocol in the network layer. HIP is a newly proposed protocol and has been shown to outperform Mobile IP in handover efficiency. Most of the proposed micro-mobility management solutions are Mobile IP-based. There are some HIP-based micro-mobility management solutions in recent publications. However, the HIP-based proposals so far do not cover all aspects of micro-mobility management. In this paper, we have presented a complete HIP-based micro-mobility management solution, which is smoother and more efficient than any other schemes in pre-session and mid-session mobility handling.