LISP-MN: Mobile Networking Through LISP

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Rodríguez Natal;Loránd Jakab;Marc Portolés;Vina Ermagan;Preethi Natarajan;Fabio Maino;David Meyer;Albert Cabellos Aparicio

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034;Centre Tecnologic de Comunicacions de Catalunya Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain;Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA 95134;Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA 95134;Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA 95134;Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA 95134;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The current Internet architecture was not designed to easily accommodate mobility because IP addresses are used both to identify and locate hosts. The Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) decouples them by considering two types of addresses: EIDs that identify hosts, and RLOCs that identify network attachment points and are used as routing locators. LISP, with such separation in place, can also offer native mobility. LISP-MN is a particular case of LISP which specifies mobility. In this paper we provide a comprehensive tutorial on LISP-MN, showing its main features and how it compares to existing mobility protocols.