Mobile IP Components
standardized by RFC 2002: “IP Mobility Support”
service advertisements: let mobiles know of existence
of mobility agent (home agent or foreign agent)
registration: mobile computer “camps on” an IP subnet
and informs its home agent about its current location
tunneling: process of forwarding IP packets from home
agent to foreign agent, for delivery to the mobile
motion detection: mobile detects that it moved on to a
new cell/IP subnet
route optimization: avoid problem of triangle routing,
not part of standard but under discussion