Handover performance with HIP and MIPv6

Mobility management in the current Internet is designed to work with mobile IPv4 and, when IPv6 is available, with mobile IPv6. These solutions are based on the current architecture in the Internet, where the IP address represents both the locator and the identifier of the node. In the IETF, identity and location information separation has raised a lot of discussion and new ideas have emerged to separate these. Host identity protocol is one candidate that can be used for this separation. It introduces also a new way of handling mobility management taking advantage on the mentioned identity and location separation.