Performance improvement in mobile IPv6 using AAA and fast handoff

Abstract

As becoming a critical issue in the mobile environment, the mobileip working group is proceeding the research about it. If it provides weak security features to the mobile service then the Mobile IPv6 will not be trusted. Although the IPsec(Internet Protocol Security) and RR(Return Routability) was selected as the methods for providing security supports and related works have been dutied, these approaches have drawbacks that the hand-held devices such as cell phone and PDA are battery-powered so the security processing is a big burden and security feature is not relatively abundant. To cope with these drawbacks, the integrated models with AAA infrastructure are being proposed as an alternative way to authenticate a mobile node by using the AAA authentication processing. In this paper, our research has a focus on minimizing the authentication latency in AAA processing and proposes the model with Fast Handoff scheme to make the better performance to AAA authentication delay. © Springer-Verlag 2004.