Vertical Handover Support for Multimode Mobile Terminal using Multi-Homed MIPv4

Author

Ahmed, Toufik ; Kyamakya, Kyandoghere ; Ludwig, Michael ; Cyrille, Kalenga Wa Ngoy ; Monique, K.M.

Author_Institution

CM ITM DT DC, Munich

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

43

Abstract

Basic mobile IPv4 (MIPv4) operation constraints applications bound to the same home address (HoA) to use the same physical interface because traffic is only tunneled towards a single care-of-address (CoA) by the home agent (HA). This prevents different applications from using different physical interfaces. Solutions to address this problem have been proposed that require configuration of filters in the HA to tunnel traffic towards different CoAs but these require modifications to the network, and additional signaling between the mobile terminal (MT) and the network. This paper describes a solution to support multimode operation using MIPv4 with no changes to the network, as well as the multimode MT architecture supporting such MIPv4 operation.

Keywords

IP networks; mobile communication; mobile computing; telecommunication traffic; MIPv4 operation; care-of-address; home address; home agent; mobile IPv4 operation; multi-homed MIPv4; multimode mobile terminal; physical interfaces; vertical handover support; Business; Filters; Ground penetrating radar; Home automation; Home computing; Informatics; Mobile computing; Protocols; Routing; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Computing and Wireless Communication International Conference, 2006. MCWC 2006. Proceedings of the First

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-9957-486-00-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCWC.2006.4375193

Filename

4375193