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Lecture 9: Mobile IPLiterature:

● Forouzan ch.27

● Article: Mobile IP by Charles E. Perkins, IEEE Communications Magazine,Vol. 40 , Issue: 5 , May 2002, Pages:66 - 82

● Article: IP multimedia services: analysis of mobile IP and SIP interactions in 3G networks by Faccin, S.M.; Lalwaney, P.; Patil, B.Communications Magazine, IEEE ,Volume: 42 , Issue: 1 , Jan. 2004, Pages:113 - 120


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Lecture 9: Mobile IP

Outline:

● Mobile IP - Introduction

● Addressing

● Agents

● Three Phases

– Agent discovery

– Registration

– Data transfer● Inefficiency


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Mobile IP - Introduction

Wireless connections to the Internet are now common.

– 802.x series– Bluetooth– GPRS– 3G

Mobility is sometimes a desired feature. This means that sessions are transferred between network access points “on-the-fly”.


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Addressing

The IP addresses are designed The IP addresses are designed to work with stationary to work with stationary

hosts because part of the address hosts because part of the address defines the network to defines the network to

which the host is attached.which the host is attached.


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Addressing cont.

Possible solutions:● Keep IP-address and update routing tables.

Not realistic to update all routers every time a host moves to a new network.

● Get a new IP-address. This requires that configuration files are changed, the computer must be rebooted, DNS tables need to be revised and any ongoing transmission will be interrupted.

● Two addresses:

– Home address– Care-of address


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Host Routing Example● Host 2 moves from home link to foreign link

– How many routing changes?– How robust?


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Host address and Care-of Address

In Mobile IP two addresses are needed to communicate with the mobile host: the In Mobile IP two addresses are needed to communicate with the mobile host: the home address and the care-of address. The home address is permanent; the home address and the care-of address. The home address is permanent; the care-of address is the address of the “closest router” and depends on the network care-of address is the address of the “closest router” and depends on the network to which the mobile node is connected. to which the mobile node is connected.

THIS DIFFERS FROM THE BOOK!!!THIS DIFFERS FROM THE BOOK!!!


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Agents

The change of address should be transparent to the rest of the Internet. This is achieved through the use of agents:

● A home agent – acts on behalf of the mobile host.● A foreign agent – handles the connection between the

mobile host and its home agent.

Sometimes the mobile host can act as a foreign agent (co-located care-of address)


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Home Agent and Foreign Agent


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Three Phases

These three phases describes how to communicate with a remote host:

1) Agent discovery – the mobile host needs to discover the addresses of both home and foreign agent.

2) Registration – update information stored by home and foreign agents

3) Data transfer


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Agent Advertisement


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Agent Advertisement cont.

Description of the fields:● Type (8 bits) - set to 16

● Length (8 bits) – total length of extention message

● Sequence number

● Lifetime (16 bits) – How frequent the agent sends advertisments

● Code (8 bits)

● List of care-of addresses

Bit Meaning 0 Registration required 1 Agent busy 2 Agent acts as home agent 3 Agent acts as foreign agent 4 Agent uses minimal encapsulation 5 Agent uses generic routing encapsulation 6 Agent supports header compression 7 Unused


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Agent Solicitation Message● Sent by mobile nodes● Request for Agent Advertisement messages● Agents are required to respond directly by sending

Agent Advertisements● Used when Agent Advertisement messages are not

transmitted frequently enough, for example if the mobile node is moving quickly between foreign networks.


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Movement detection● A mobile node assumes that it has been moved if:

– No Agent Advertisement message is received from the current foreign agent in the last Lifetime seconds (advertisements should be sent approximately three times per Lifetime seconds).

– An Agent Advertisement is received from a foreign agent with a network prefix different from the current foreign agent.


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What if no advertisements are found?● If the mobile node is connected but receives no Agent

Advertisements, even after sending repeated Agent Solicitations, it can:

– A: Hope that it is connected to it home network. This can be tested by sending an ICMP Echo Request to its default router.

– B: If A fails, assume connection to a foreign link and try DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

– C: If A and B fail: Ask user for manual configuration– Otherwise connection has failed (not a mobile IP

problem)


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Router Advertisement Message


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Registration

There are four aspects of registration. The mobile agent must:

● Register with the foreign agent

● Register with the home agent

● Renew registration if expired

● Cancel registration when returning home


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Registration Request and Reply


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Registration Request Format

Sent using UDP port 434


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Registration reply format

Sent using UDP port 434


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When should a mobile node register?● When it has been moved● When foreign agent has rebooted● When current registration is due to expire.


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To where is the registration sent?

Finding the correct link layer address for the registration is somewhat difficult.

● Home link: the Address Resolution Protocol is used.● Foreign links: ARP cannot be used. If it is, the mobile

node's home address would be placed in other local nodes' ARP caches. Instead the foreign agents link layer address is taken from the Link Layer Source Address field of the Agent Advertisement

● In the case of collocated c/o-address the same method that gave the c/o-address can be used to find the IP address of default router. Then ARP can be used.


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How to find the Home Agent address

Generally the mobile node is configured with its home agent address, home address, network prefix etc.

If it is not, the following procedure can be used:● The mobile node sends a registration request to the

broadcast address of its home network. This is relayed by the foreign agent (if it exists).

● The request is broadcast on the home network, requiring all home agents to respond with a “Unknown home agent address” message.

● The mobile node collects all replies and learns the addresses of all available home agents, allowing normal registration.


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Data Transfer


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Data Transfer cont.

1) From remote host to home agent

2) From home agent to foreign agent

3) From foreign agent to mobile host

4) From mobile host to remote host

Not very efficient!


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Double Crossing


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Triangle Routing


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Home agent packet interception

The home agent must intercept packets bound for absent mobile nodes

● Proxy ARP is used by the home agent● When the mobile nodes registeres on a foreign link,

the home agent sends gratuitous ARPs to flush local ARP caches

● In the same way, when the mobile node returns home, it must also send gratuitous ARPs.


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Mobile IP v6● There is no need for foreign agents in MIPv6 since

there are plenty of addresses available.● MIPv6 supports route optimization

– Both care-of address and home address are sent along with the message so that the remote host can use the care-of address for direct transmission.

● Message overhead have been reduced


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Mobile IP in 3G Networks

There are two dominating 3G networks:

GPRS/UMTS (Specified by 3GPP)The mobile host gets IP connectivity through a GGSN which provides the

care-of address.

MIP is not explicitly supported, but can be used to support mobility in multi-access networks.

CDMA2000 (Specified by 3GPP2)Here a PDSN (Packet Data Switching Node) provides the link between the

radio network and the Internet.

MIPv4 is deployed, MIPv6 is only partly supported.


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SIP and Mobile IP

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been chosen for the support of IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) in both 3GPP and 3GPP2 (VoIP, streaming...).

In 3GPP IPv6 is used for IMS.

Both IPv4 and IPv6 are allowed for IMS in 3GPP2 networks.

SIP also supports mobility.


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SIP and MIPv4

When a mobile host connects to an IPv4 network, NATs are needed to connect to a IPv6 SIP infrastructure.

With SIP, the packet payload also needs modification by the NAT. This requires an ALG, since NATs normally does not modify the payload.

There are some routing issues that makes IMS services over MIPv4 complex and inefficient.


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SIP and MIPv6

At SIP registration an IP address is provided.

When Mobile IP is used, there are two addresses available, home address and care-of address

The home address should be used for SIP communication to make the changes in IP addresses transparent to applications.

The care-of address should be used for SIP signaling to avoid tunneling


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Closing remarks● MIPv4 has been a standard for some years● MIPv6 is not yet a standard● The interworking of SIP and MIP has not yet been

standardized.

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