A portable mobile IP implementation

Author

Haverinen, Henry ; Kuikka, Antti ; Määttänen, Tuomas

Author_Institution

Nokia Mobile Phones, Tampere, Finland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

162

Abstract

This paper describes the software architecture of a portable mobile IP implementation. In addition, the paper discusses general design issues with protocol implementations and the relationship between a protocol implementation and the operating system. The mobile IP implementation has been adapted for several operating systems, including Windows 2000, Windows CE and Linux. As mobile IP is an enhancement of the Internet protocol (IP), the implementation is an add-on component to an existing TCP/IP stack. One of the challenges in such an implementation is the fact that the existing protocol implementation is often available only as an executable binary, which cannot be modified. Another challenge is how to make the implementation generic and porting-friendly, as solutions required in different operating systems vary substantially

Keywords

land mobile radio; operating systems (computers); software architecture; transport protocols; Internet protocol; Linux; TCP/IP stack; Windows 2000; Windows CE; generic implementation; operating system; portable mobile IP implementation; porting-friendly implementation; protocol implementations; software architecture; Application software; Encapsulation; Internet; Linux; Mobile handsets; Operating systems; Routing protocols; Software architecture; TCPIP; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2000. LCN 2000. Proceedings. 25th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0912-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2000.891021

Filename

891021