AUM: Auto-update micromobility for IPv6 networks

Abstract

Fast and seamless localized mobility management is one of the key challenges for future "All IP" based communication networks. Although several proposals for micromobility management have been made in the recent past, almost all of them propose a proxy based solution for location management. In this work, we present a novel approach for providing micromobility in IPv6 networks called Auto-update Micromobility (AUM). AUM exploits the IPv6 addressing structure to simplify location management and also provides full support for seamless, fast handoff.