Name: draft-ietf-mipshop-fast-mipv6-03
Title: Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6
State: Pending
Authors: Rajeev Koodli
Group: MIPv6 Signaling and Handoff Optimization (mipshop)
Date: 2004-10-22
Mobile IPv6 enables a Mobile Node to maintain its connectivity to the
Internet when moving from an Access Router to another, a process referred
to as handover. During handover, there is a period when the Mobile Node is
unable to send or receive packets both due to 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 enhancements to reduce the handover latency due to
standard Mobile IPv6 procedures. This document does not address improving
the link switching latency.
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