Access control in IPv6-based roaming scenarios

This work deals with the problem of roaming among heterogeneous networks for IPv6-based terminals. When an IPv6 terminal accesses a foreign domain it should perform two main actions: it should authenticate with the new domain (user or terminal authentication), and it should configure the interface according to the current point of attachment to the network (dynamic terminal configuration). In this paper, we investigate how the autoconfiguration procedures provided by IPv6 (both stateless and stateful) can be integrated with the access control functionality supplied by a general AAA framework. The aim is providing a general architecture that allows roaming terminals to efficiently accede to IP services from foreign subnets.