Mobile IP Overview
Mobile IP basically transforms the mobility problem to
a routing problem, using two IP addresses
n static IP address: connection establishment, packet delivery
n care-of IP address: changes with host mobility
home agent is the router for the home network
foreign agent, located within the range of a mobile
computer, delivers packets to it after receiving them
from the home agent
no special routing is needed to send packets from a
mobile computer to a non-mobile computer
routing from stationary computer to mobile computer is
not necessarily optimal (triangular routing), proposals
exist for route optimization