ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
IP paging service for mobile hosts
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Cellular IP: a new approach to Internet host mobility
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
HAWAII: a domain-based approach for supporting mobility in wide-area wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Comparison of IP micromobility protocols
IEEE Wireless Communications
Mobile TCP socket for secure applications
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
Mixing heterogeneous address spaces in a single edge network
APNOMS'06 Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific international conference on Network Operations and Management: management of Convergence Networks and Services
An intermediate framework for unifying and automating mobile communication systems
AN'06 Proceedings of the First IFIP TC6 international conference on Autonomic Networking
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We propose a new network layer mobility architecture called MobileNAT to efficiently support micro and macro-mobility in and across heterogeneous address spaces common in emerging public networks. The key ideas in this architecture are as follows: (1) Use of two IP addresses -- an invariant virtual IP address for host identification at the application layer and an actual routable address at the network layer that changes due to mobility. Since physical address has routing significance only within a domain, it can be a private address and therefore, does not deplete the public IP address resource. (2) New DHCP enhancements to distribute the two addresses. (3) A new signaling element called Mobility Manager (MM) that uses Middlebox Communication (MIDCOM) framework to signal the changes in packet processing rules to the Network Address Translators (NATs) in the event of node mobility. Our proposal does not require any modifications to the access networks and can seamlessly co-exist with the existing Mobile IP mechanisms and therefore, can be used to provide seamless mobility across heterogeneous wireline and wireless networks. We report implementation details of a subset of our ideas in a testbed with Windows XP clients and Linux based NATs.