Secure Short-Cut Routing for Mobile IP

Authors: 

Trevor Blackwell, Kee Chan, Koling Chang, Thomas Charuhas, James Gwertzman, Brad Karp, H. T. Kung, David Li, Dong Lin, Robert Morris, Rob Polansky, Diane Tang, Cliff Young, John Zao, Harvard University

Abstract: 

This paper describes the architecture and implementa-tion of a mobile IP system. It allows mobile hosts to roam between cells implemented with 2-Mbps radio base stations, while maintaining Internet connectivity. The system is being developed as part of a course on wireless networks at Harvard and has been opera-tional since March 1994.

The architecture scales well, both geographi-cally and in the number of mobile hosts supported. It supports secure short-cut routing to mobile hosts using the existing Internet routing system without change. The implementation demonstrates a robust, low complexity realization of the architecture, and provides trade-off opportunities between efficiency and cost.

Measured performance of the mobile system is generally excellent. The system can handle a high rate of location updates, and routes packets almost as efficiently for mobile hosts as the Internet does for stationary hosts. We observe reasonable TCP behavior during hand-offs.

BibTeX
@inproceedings {252787,
author = {Trevor Blackwell and Kee Chan and Koling Chang and Thomas Charuhas and James Gwertzman and Brad Karp and H. T. Kung and David Li and Dong Lin and Robert Morris and Rob Polansky and Diane Tang and Cliff Young and John Zao},
title = {Secure {Short-Cut} Routing for Mobile {IP}},
booktitle = {USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference (USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference)},
year = {1994},
address = {Boston, MA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-summer-1994-technical-conference/secure-short-cut-routing-mobile-ip},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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Paper: 
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/blackwell.pdf