Mobile Inter-networking with IPv6 : Concepts, Principles and Practices

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Part I   Introduction and Background

1   Mobility on the Internet: Introduction

References

2   IP Version 6

2.1   Motivation

2.2   Definitions

2.3   IPv6 Format

2.3.1   IPv6 Header Format

2.3.2   IPv6 Extension Headers

2.4   IPv6 Addresses

2.5   Neighbor Discovery Protocol

2.5.1   Router Discovery

2.6   Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

2.6.1   Looking for a Neighbor

2.6.2   Duplicate Address Detection (DAD)

2.7   Summary

References

3   IP Security

3.1   Introduction

3.2   What is IPsec?

3.3   Security Associations

3.3.1   SA Types

3.3.2   Selectors

3.3.3   The Databases

3.4   Traffic Processing

3.5   Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol

3.6   Summary

References

Part II IP Mobility

4   Mobility Concepts and Principles

4.1   Introduction

4.2   Roaming and Handover Together Constitute the Mobility Problem

4.2.1   Roaming Problem: How Packets Reach the Current Location of the Mobile Node

4.2.2   Robustness Problem: Connection Must Withstand Change of IP Address

4.2.3   Beyond Robustness: Supporting Real-time Mobility

4.3   Internet Principle: Core Network Transparency

4.4   Network-controlled Mobility

4.5   Application Layer and Session Layer Mobility

4.6   Supporting Mobility Using IP

4.7   Summary

Exercises

References

5   Mobility Support Using Mobile IP

5.1   Introduction

5.2   Mobility Events and Actions

5.2.1   Detecting Movement to a New Subnet

5.2.2   Regaining IP Connectivity

5.2.3   Packet Forwarding Subsequent to Movement

5.2.4 ...