Objective

Security is always important in any network communication, especially with mobile IP networks,
because mobile devices are using wireless communication that is less secure than a wired network.

The problem investigated in this project is about the security issues with mobile IP, especially due to
using a registration system process and then forwarding the messages across an unsecured network.

In this project we answer the following questions:

 How does Mobile IP work?

 What are the common security threats that faced mobile IP networks?
 What are the methods and suggestions to improve the security performance of Mobile IP?
 What is IPSec? How does it work? What issues does it handle?
 How does the secure MobileIP (SecMIP) work?
 What are the differences between MIPv4 and MIPv6?

Methodology
The methodology of this project is theoretical investigation, by studying different articles and
comparing different approaches in how to combine IPSec with mobile IP to come up with the best
solution to secure mobile IP.
Our goal in this project is to achieve a good solution to secure mobile IP. In order to accomplish this,
it involves first hand analysis of the security issues that face mobile IP networks, the operation of the
mobile IP and find out which points the attackers might break through.

References
 Matthias Hollick, “The Evolution of Mobile IP Towards Security”, German National Research
Center for Information Technology Institute IPSI, 2000.
 IPSec, http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipsec-charter.html.
 http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPSecSecurityAssociationsandtheSecurityAssociation-
2.htm.
 John K. Zao, Matt Condell “Use of IPSec in Mobile IP”, November 1997.
 [25] Torsten. B and Marc. D “Secure Mobile IP Communication “University of Bern”.