Research on Mobility Management Based on MIP Table in Mixed IPv4/v6 Networks

Abstract:

IETF has specified Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6 in RFC3344 and RFC3775 respectively, but not yet discussed Mobile IPv4/v6 in any published RFC. This paper proposes a scheme to solve one of Mobile IPv4/v6 problems which Home Agent (HA) locates in IPv6 network, and Correspondent Node (CN) locates in IPv4 network, while Mobile Node (MN) moves within IPv4 network. In the solution, a gateway called Mobile IPv4/v6 translation gateway (MIPv4/v6-TG) is introduced to bridge between IPv4 network and IPv6 network, which is made up of a traditional NAT-PT gateway and a Mobile IP application level gateway (MIP-ALG) built upon the NAT-PT gateway. MIP-ALG maintains a MIP table, a data structure, which is formed by entries. We use the MIP table to realize the communication between the IPv4 entities and the IPv6 entities. The creation, usage and update processes of MIP table are described in this paper. And it can work compatibly with RFC3344 and RFC3775.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 347-350)
• Pages: 2038-2042
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.347-350.2038
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Zheng Xiang, Zheng Ming Ma
• Keywords: MIP Table, Mobile IP Application Level Gateway (MIP-ALG), Mobile IPv4/v6 Translation Gateway (MIPv4/v6-TG), MobileIP(MIP;NAT-PT)

References

[1] Charles E. Perkins, Editor, IP Mobility Support for IPv4, RFC3344, IETF, August (2002).

[2] Charles E. Perkins, Editor, Mobility Support in IPv6, RFC3775, IETF, June (2004).

[3] E. Nordmark, Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers, RFC4219, IETF, October (2005).

DOI: 10.17487/rfc4213

[4] A. Durand, IPv6 Tunnel Broker, RFC3053, IETF, January (2001).

[5] E. Nordmark, Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT), RFC2765, IETF, February (2000).

DOI: 10.17487/rfc2765

[6] G. Tsirtsis, P. Srisuresh, Network Address Translation-Protocol Translation (NAT-PT), RFC2776, IETF, February (2000).

DOI: 10.17487/rfc2766

[7] Joo- Chul Lee, Considerations for Mobility Support in NAT-PT, Internet Draft, IETF, June (2005).

[8] Changwen Liu, Support mobile IPv6 in IPv4 domains, Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC 2004-Spring. 2004 IEEE 59th.

DOI: 10.1109/vetecs.2004.1391411

[9] Dae Sun Kim; Choong Seon Hong; Suda, T, A Terminal Mobility Management Architecture for IPv4 and IPv6 Environments, Broadband Convergence Networks, 2006. BcN 2006. The 1st International Workshop on.

DOI: 10.1109/bcn.2006.1662283

[10] Hyun-Ho Choi; Dong-Ho Cho, Mobility management based on mobile IP in mixed IPv4/IPv6 networks, Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th.

DOI: 10.1109/vetecf.2003.1285385