Mobile 4-in-6: a novel IPv4 / IPv6 transitioning mechanism for mobile hosts

Author

Finney, Joe ; Schmid, Stefan ; Scott, Andrew

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Lancaster Univ.

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

13-17 March 2005

Firstpage

1427

Lastpage

1433

Abstract

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the IETF mobile IPv6 protocol will have a role to play in future mobile and wireless networks. However, it is extremely likely that even after a real world deployment of IPv6, a considerable number of ´legacy´ IPv4 applications and devices will remain in regular use for many years to come. Recently, much work has been focussed on developing protocols and tools to ease the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, yet despite mobile systems being one of the primary motivations for IPv6 deployment, none of these protocols and tools are designed to operate in a mobile environment. This paper documents the motivation, design, implementation and experimental evaluation of mobile 4-in-6, a mobile aware IPv4/IPv6 transitioning technology based upon the mobile IPv6 standard, that provides transparent support for IPv4 only applications in IPv6 only environments.

Keywords

IP networks; mobility management (mobile radio); routing protocols; IPv4/IPv6 transitioning mechanism; legacy IPv4 applications; mobile 4-in-6; mobile IPv6 protocol; mobile hosts; network level routing protocol; node mobility; transparent IPv4 support; Access protocols; Bluetooth; Computer networks; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Mobile computing; Peer to peer computing; Routing protocols; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8966-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2005.1424725

Filename

1424725