Harmonised resilience, security and mobility capability for IP

Enabling Mobile Networks through secure naming

“…We use the term Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6) to refer to our proposal, as it can be engineered as enhancements to IPv6 [1], [4].…”

“…That is, a local (private) Locator value, L L , is used by all nodes in the mobile network, and for all egress packets, the MR rewrites L L to either L 1 or L 2 depending on the egress links to be used, and performs the complimentary operation for ingress packets. This is the ILNPv6 equivalent of NAT, but unlike IP, does not violate end-to-end state and is completely transparent to all ILNPv6 nodes [1]. Now, let us assume a handover is triggered for the link currently using L 1 .…”

“…Additionally, we have described other benefits of ILNP previously, such as harmonised traffic engineering and multi-homing support with mobility for hosts and mobile networks [1]. Also, by leveraging the mature work in secure, dynamic DNS updates, existing infrastructure can be leveraged, rather than having to deploy and maintain Home Agents.…”

“…We have outlined previously a proposal for provision of a harmonised set of capabilities for site multihoming, traffic engineering, end-to-end security, and support for mobile systems and networks [1]. In this paper, we expand on our new approach to mobile networks with the Identifier Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) 1 . We present an analytical comparison with the IETF work on Network Mobility (NEMO).…”

“…We note that, at the time of writing, the work on NEMO is being integrated with Mobile IPv6 under the Mobility Extensions WG 2 , but it seems likely that there will be no major architectural changes. 1 http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk 2 http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mext-charter. html We take the position that, with the increased capability in naming functionality within the Domain Name System (DNS), including secure, dynamic update [2], it is now worthwhile considering the use of naming as a key capability to enable mission-critical services within a military context.…”