Mobile IP in a heterogenous environment

Author

Jayasinghe, Sarinda ; Ball, Jerry ; Tran, Chanh ; Lee, Chi-Kwan

Author_Institution

Electron. Surveillance & Res. Lab., Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Salisbury, SA, Australia

fYear

2002

fDate

11-13 Feb. 2002

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

322

Abstract

Mobile IP is a network layer protocol that enables mobility across IP networks without having to change any configuration parameters or IP addresses. It is specified as an IETF standard and appears in two versions, MIPv4 and MIPv6. This paper describes a testbed and some experiments that were conducted to ascertain the functionality of an implementation of MIPv4. The testbed incorporated heterogenous bearers such as a satellite link and HF radio links. The link layer independence of MIP was also tested. Finally, the operation of a military application in the presence of MIP was tested with success. MIPv4 was found to be a fairly robust protocol, in the sense that successful operation was observed even in the presence of relatively low signal-to-noise ratios.

Keywords

Internet; military communication; radio links; satellite links; transport protocols; wireless LAN; Ethernet LAN; HF radio link; IETF standard; IP networks; MIPv4; Mobile IP; protocol; satellite links; wireless LAN; Hafnium; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Military satellites; Protocols; Radio link; Robustness; Satellite broadcasting; Signal to noise ratio; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Decision and Control, 2002. Final Program and Abstracts

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA, Australia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7270-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDC.2002.995422

Filename

995422