Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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IP Micro-Mobility Support
nMicro-mobility support:
–Efficient local handover inside a foreign domain
without involving a home agent
–Reduces control traffic on backbone
–Especially needed in case of route optimization
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nExample approaches:
–Cellular IP
–HAWAII
–Hierarchical Mobile IP (HMIP)
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nImportant criteria:
 Security Efficiency, Scalability, Transparency, Manageability