Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6
RFC 4068, “Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6”, is an Experimental document published in July 2005 by R. Koodli. It has been obsoleted by RFC 5268 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Mobile IPv6 enables a Mobile Node to maintain its connectivity to the Internet when moving from one Access Router to another, a process referred to as handover. During handover, there is a period during which the Mobile Node is unable to send or receive packets because of link switching delay and IP protocol operations. This "handover latency" resulting from standard Mobile IPv6 procedures, namely movement detection, new Care of Address configuration, and Binding Update, is often unacceptable to real-time traffic such as Voice over IP. Reducing the handover latency could be beneficial to non-real-time, throughput-sensitive applications as well. This document specifies a protocol to improve handover latency due to Mobile IPv6 procedures. This document does not address improving the link switching latency. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
What “Experimental” means
Describes a specification that is part of a research or development effort, published so the community can gain experience with it.
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- RFC 4067 Context Transfer Protocol
- RFC 4069 Definitions of Managed Object Extensions for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines Using Single Carrier Modulation Line Coding
- RFC 4066 Candidate Access Router Discovery
- RFC 4070 Definitions of Managed Object Extensions for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines Using Multiple Carrier Modulation Line Coding
- RFC 4065 Instructions for Seamoby and Experimental Mobility Protocol IANA Allocations
- RFC 4071 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity
- RFC 4064 Experimental Message, Extensions, and Error Codes for Mobile IPv4
- RFC 4072 Diameter Extensible Authentication Protocol Application