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Even though these are two completely different systems, the end result is the same—two parties
in an airport can communicate with each other. As explored in Chapter 2, “Understanding
Mobile IP,” Mobile IP takes a similar approach.
Location discovery, whether it’s reactive or proactive, is the method by which the network
knows how to deliver traffic to the mobile device. The specific implementation of the location
discovery is closely tied to the underlying technology and predicted traffic model.
Move Detection
While the term move detection has some clearly physical connotations, in this context, it is
almost ...