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Ad HoC Mobile Wireless netWorks
However, mobile IP is not suitable for fast mobility and smooth han-
dover between cells, and a few requirements are to be considered for
its design.
e messages used to transmit information about the location of a
mobile node to another node must be authenticated to protect against
remote redirection attacks.
For making the processes more secure and more efficient, enhance-
ments to the mobile IP technique, such as mobile IPv6 and hierarchical
mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) defined in RFC 5380, are being developed
to improve mobile communications. Researchers create support for
mobile networking without requiring any predeployed infrastructure
as is currently required by mobile IP. One such example is the inter-
active pro ...