Handover Mechanisms in Mobile IPv6

Tim Hong (MSc Student)

Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury

Fri Feb 22 15:30:00 NZDT 2008 in Room 031, Erskine Building

Abstract

Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) is an under development standard from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It is developed to overcome MIPv4's address shortage problem and deficiencies in data transmission.

MIPv6 allows mobile nodes maintain connections while transferring from one subnet to another. The transferring process is known as handover. Until now, this process is still not transparent enough to enable real time sensitive applications in IPv6-based wireless network.

This seminar surveys previously suggested handover mechanisms and a possibly better, hybrid solution will be introduced.