IPv6 Mobility Support

Petander, Henrik (2005) IPv6 Mobility Support. In: Australian IPv6 Summit, 31 October - 01 November 2005, Canberra, Australia.

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Abstract

Enhanced mobility support is one of the key drivers of IPv6. Mobile IPv6 allows mobile nodes to move between different networks while keeping their existing communications with correspondent nodes and remaining reachable with the help of a fixed mobility anchor point. In contrast to Mobile IPv4, Mobile IPv6 allows mobile nodes to communicate directly with their peers using optimized direct routes. This increases the scalability of the protocol and also improves networking performance of mobile nodes. Mobile IPv6 is designed for inter domain mobility management and it also supports inter-access technology handovers. Currently intra domain mobility in systems using Mobile IP, such as the 3GPP2 networks, is handled at the link layer. However, IETF is developing standards for improving intra domain mobility support in IPv6. In addition to mobility management of hosts, Mobile IPv6 can also be used to manage the mobility of mobile networks, for example networks inside trains and airplanes, using the NEMO extension.

EPrint Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)
Additional Information:	Australian IPv6 Summit Presentation
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Australia Summit IPv6 Mobility
Subjects:	Mobile IPv6 3G
ID Code:	153
Deposited By:	Mr David Mills
Deposited On:	21 February 2006

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