Client and network-based dual stack mobility management

Antonio de la Oliva, Maria Calderon, Carlos Bernardos, Ryuji Wakikawa
2012 IEEE wireless communications  
We are witnessing how the Internet is evolving to tackle users' demands: mobility (users are mobile) and ubiquitous connectivity (billions of devices are demanding IP connectivity). The former caused the design of IP mobility protocols aimed at enabling terminals to be able to seamlessly roam among heterogeneous access networks, while the latter has sped up the depletion of the IPv4 addressing space, triggering the design of a new version of the IP protocol (IPv6) and the development of
more » ... on mechanisms to enable the co-existence of IPv4 and IPv6-based networks. During the transition period, which is expected to last many years, there will be dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 mobile nodes roaming across IPv4-and-IPv6, IPv6-only and IPv4-only networks. This article presents a comprehensive tutorial of the mechanisms that have been standardized recently to support dual stack IP mobility management.
doi:10.1109/mwc.2012.6339475 fatcat:u4gulhllcvcmdaaxduplj7xg3q