A New Secure Binding Management Protocol for Mobile IPv6 Networks

This paper proposes a novel secure binding management protocol for mobile IPv6 networks for use in the implementation of routing optimization. The idea uses the public key of the home network of a mobile node to cryptographically generate the mobile node´s home address and the associated private key to sign the mobile node´s authentication requests. In addition, the proposed protocol performs reachability tests for both the home address and the care-of address. The proposed protocol offloads all expensive cryptographic operations from a mobile node to its home agent. The security of the protocol is informally analysed and an initially evaluation of its performance given.