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Mobile Internet Protocol: by Nithiyapriya .P

Mobile IP allows mobile devices to change location while maintaining the same IP address. It works by having a home agent forward packets to the device's current foreign agent when it is away from its home network. The foreign agent then delivers the packets to the mobile node using its care-of address. This allows the mobile node to seamlessly change networks without changing its IP address or disrupting ongoing communications.

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Mobile Internet Protocol: by Nithiyapriya .P

Mobile IP allows mobile devices to change location while maintaining the same IP address. It works by having a home agent forward packets to the device's current foreign agent when it is away from its home network. The foreign agent then delivers the packets to the mobile node using its care-of address. This allows the mobile node to seamlessly change networks without changing its IP address or disrupting ongoing communications.

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MOBILE INTERNET

PROTOCOL
By
NITHIYAPRIYA .P
Overview of Mobile IP
• The goal of mobile IP is to enable packet
transmission efficiently without any packet
loss and disruptions in the presence of host and
or destination mobility.

Mobile Computing - Nithiyapriya Pasavaraj


Mobile IP
Mobile IP is an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard

communications protocol designed to allow mobile devices (such as laptop,

PDA, mobile phone, etc.) users to move from one network to another while

maintaining their permanent IP (Internet Protocol) address.

The IP Defined in RFC 791 (Request for Comments) , The mobile IP is an

enhancement of the internet protocol (IP) that adds mechanisms for forwarding

internet traffic to mobile devices (known as mobile nodes - MN) when they are

connecting through other than their home network(HN).

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•Sequence of steps shows how a datagram moves from one point to
another within the Mobile IP framework.

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At First , the internet host sends a datagram to the mobile node using the
mobile node's home address (normal IP routing process) known as Home
Network .
If the mobile node (MN) is on its home network, the datagram is delivered
through the normal IP (Internet Protocol) process to the mobile node. Otherwise
the home agent picks up the datagram.
If the mobile node (MN) is on foreign network, the home agent (HA)
forwards the datagram to the foreign agent.
The foreign agent (FA) delivers the datagram to the mobile node.
Datagram from the MN to the Internet host are sent using normal IP routing
procedures. If the mobile node is on a foreign network, the packets are
delivered to the foreign agent. The FA forwards the datagram to the Internet
host.
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In the case of wireless communications, the above illustrations illustrate
the use of wireless transceivers to transmit the datagram to the mobile
node.
All datagram between the Internet host and the MN, use the mobile
node's home address regardless of whether the mobile node is on a home
or foreign network.
The care-of address (COA) is used only for communication with
mobility agents and is never seen by the Internet host.

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Mobile IP Technologies
Mobile Node (MN) : Mobile node can be called as the device (cell phone, PDA, laptop etc.,)
or user or router that are capable of frequently changing their positions in the network without
changing their original IP address.
Home Network (HN) : The Home Network of a mobile device is the network to which
mobile node originally belongs to.
Home Agent (HA) : The HA stores information about all mobile nodes whose permanent
home address is in the network assigned to the HA. The HA maintains a location of directory
of the mobile handsets belonging permanently to the home network and acts as a router for
delivery of datagram to the MH, when it is away from home.
Foreign Agent (FA) : The FA is a router in a foreign network that functions as the point of
attachment for a mobile node (MN), when it roams to the foreign network. The FA provides
several services (such as tunneling of data-grams) whenever mobile node visits foreign
network.
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Foreign Network (FN) : Any network other than the network on which
mobile node has a registered IP (home network) is known as Foreign Network.
The foreign Network is the current subnet to which the mobile node is visiting.
Corresponding Node (CN) : Correspondent node is the Partner node used for
communication with the mobile node.
Care of Address (COA) : COA is an address that identifies the mobile node’s
current location. It is responsible for data packet delivery through the process
of tunneling.
Tunnel : It is the path taken by the encapsulated packets.

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Care of Address (COA)
• COA is an address that identifies the mobile
node’s current location. It is responsible for
data packet delivery through the process of
tunneling.
• The COA can be of two types
 Foreign agent COA – IP address of FA
 Co-located COA - Temporary IP address
acquired by DHCP.

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Agent Discovery
• The task of determining a mobile node’s
foreign agent during call establishment , is
know as Agent Discovery.
• It can be done in two ways
– Agent advertisement
– Agent solicitation

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Agent Advertisement
• An agent advertisement message has one or more
care-of-addresses and a flag indicating whether it is a
home agent or foreign agent.

Agent solicitation
• An agent solicitation message will be sent by Mobile
Node(MN) ,when the MN does not receive any COA
to search for a foreign agent(FA).

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