Mobile IP

✍ Scribed by C. E. Perkins

• Book ID: 101287325
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-5351
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1131(199801/02)11:1<3::aid-dac351>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

Mobile IP has been designed within the IETF to serve the needs of the burgeoning population of mobile computer users who wish to connect to the Internet and maintain communications as they move from place to place. The basic protocol is described, with details given on the three major component protocols: Agent Advertisement, Registration and Tunnelling. Route optimization procedures are then outlined and further topics of current interest are described.