Unit - 4

M.Balamurugan
Dept. of BCA
 Mobile Network Layer
 I P is the common base for thousands of applications and
runs over dozens of different networks. The Mobile IP
adds mobility support to the Internet network layer
protocol IP.
 The basic idea here is to combine or merge the world of
mobile phones with the internet and to support mobility
in the most efficient way.

Mobile IP
 Mobile IP is a network layer solution for homogeneous
and heterogeneous, mobility on the global Internet
which is scalable, robust , secure and which allows
nodes to maintain all ongoing communications while
moving.
 Need for Mobile IP
 The IP addresses are designed to work with stationary
hosts because part of the address defines the network to
which the host is attached.

• Mobility – is the ability of a node to change its point-of-

attachment while maintaining all existing
communications and using the same IP address.

• Nomadicity – allows a node to move but it must

terminate all existing communications and then can
initiate new connections with a new address.
 Entities and Terminologies
 RFC 3344 defines several entities and terms needed for
mobile IP. The following illustrates them:

 Mobile node(MN)
 Correspondent node(CN)
 Home Network(HN)
 Foreign network
 Foreign Agent
 Care-of-address
 Home agent