MIPv6 Packet Flows

I started to work on Mobile IPv6 protocol analysis as a member of the European ITSSv6 (IPv6 ITS Station Stack for Cooperative ITS FOTs) project. I have analyzed the data and signal packets of Mobile IPv6 RFCs. This document contains all of the most important packages. I tried to focus to the must have parts of the each packages, but I added the required paddings as well.


Update: As a participant in the CONCERTO (Content and cOntext aware delivery for iNteraCtive multimedia healthcaRe applications) project I have extended my previous analysis with other mobility features (i.e.: HMIPv6, FMIPv6, GHAHA).

Download: MIPv6-Flows-2.1 (zipped PDF)

Revision History:

• 1.0
• Mobility Support, NEMO, MCoA
• 1.1
• Adding: Flow Binding according to RFC 6089
• 1.2
• Adding: Neighbor Discovery on the Access Network
• Adding: Router advertisement on Home Network (Multi-Home support)
• 1.3
• Fix: Missing Type 2 Routing header from BA messages
• Adding: IPSec for Return Routability
• Adding: IPSec for tunneled traffic
• 2.0
• Some minor fixes
• Adding: Hierarchical Mobile IPv6
• Adding: Enhanced Route Optimization
• Adding: HA Reliability Protocol (I-D)
• Adding: Global HA-HA (I-D)
• Cosmetics: Title page, Table of contents, Title page for each chapters
• 2.1
• Some typo fixes
• Adding: Fast Handover for Mobile IPv6
• Update: HMIPv6 (Adding CN binding and optimized traffic)

Proceed RFCs:

• RFC 6275 - Mobility Support in IPv6
• RFC 3963 - Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support Protocol
• RFC 5648 - Multiple Care-of Addresses Registration
• RFC 6089 - Flow Bindings in Mobile IPv6 and Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support
• RFC 3776 - Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling Between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents
• RFC 5380 - Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) Mobility Management
• RFC 5142 - Mobility Header Home Agent Switch Message
• RFC 5026 - Mobile IPv6 Bootstrapping in Split Scenario
• RFC 4866 - Enhanced Route Optimization for Mobile IPv6
• RFC 5568 - Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers
• RFC 5269 - Distributing a Symmetric Fast Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) Handover Key Using SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)

Proceed Internet Drafts:

• Home Agent Reliability Protocol (HARP)
• Global HA to HA Protocol Specification

Other references:

• RFC 2460 - Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
• RFC 2473 - Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
• RFC 4861 - Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 6088 - Traffic Selectors for Flow Bindings
• RFC 3972 - Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
• RFC 2526 - Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
• RFC 3971 - SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)

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