Mobile IP; Design Principles and Practices

• Authors: Charles E. Perkins;Sherman R. Alpert;Bobby Woolf
• Venue: Mobile IP; Design Principles and Practices
• Year: 1997

From the Book:PREFACE: Two technological advances in recent years have radically altered the nature of computing for most computer users. The first is mobility. Laptop computers now represent the fastest growing segment of the computer market. Most observers expect that laptop computers, palmtop computers, networked personal digital assistants, and other such mobile computers will eventually represent the majority of the stations connected to the Internet. The advantage of mobile computing is that users may access all their applications from any location, whether they are in another building or a different state. The second advance is the widespread use of the Internet for communication, file transfer, and World Wide Web connectivity. This book describes how to make a mobile computer user a citizen of the Internet and how to access everything the information superhighway has to offer. The goal of this book is to provide you with an introduction to the design and implementation of Internet protocols that are useful for maintaining network connections even while moving from place to place. We look at several protocols including Mobile IP, route optimization, IP version 6, the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, encapsulation, source routing, and some related miscellaneous topics still under development. To take full advantage of the information in this book, you should be familiar with basic Internet protocols, such as the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP. Rich Stevens' book TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols and Douglas Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP both provide excellent introductions to TCP/IP. As a developer of hardware and softwareproductsfor the Internet, you should have these books on your shelves. By the time you finish Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices, you will be able to implement Mobile IP, and will have a clear understanding of the system impact of mobility. You will also understand the relevant protocols, and the traps and pitfalls that you are likely to encounter along the way. As you read the book, you will notice many italicized terms, some of which have conventional meanings that may be different than one's first impression (for example, foreign agent). These terms are defined in the Glossary: Please check definitions there, and be sure that you understand a term's meaning before moving on in the text. 0201634694P04062001