Advanced IP Networks

Contents

• Internetworking principles. Internetworking with IPv6
  • The history of IPv6
  • IPv6 basics, IPv6 addressing
  • Neighbour Divscover, Automatic Address Configuration, DHCPv6
  • IPv6 extensions and functionalities
  • IPv6 integration and transition mechanisms
  • Routing and Multicast protocols in IPv6
  • Security in IPv6
  • ICMPv6
  • IPv6 Case Studies, IPv6 research work examples

• Mobile IP networks
  • Motivation
  • Basic Definitions
  • Mobile IPv4 and IPv6: discovery, registration, tunneling and route optimization
  • Mobility enhanced performance solutions in MIPv4 and MIPv6
    • Regional registration, Paging extensions, FMIP, HMIP, Cellular IP.
  • Cross-Layer solutions for Fast Handoff
  • Network Mobility
    • Network mobility terminology
    • NEMO
    • Multihoming concepts, Routing Optimization, Nested Networks
  • Topics on Quality of service and security issues in Mobile IP Networks
  • Mobile IP research work examples

• Analysis, discussion and presentation of IPv6 and Mobile IP advanced research works

Learning outcomes

• to identify and discuss the concepts underlying IPv6 protocol, and their main characteristics and functionality;
• to understand the new IPv6 addressing mechanisms;
• to identify and discuss the use of new IPv6 extensions and protocols in advanced IP networks;
• to identify and understand the major steps to configure an IPv6 network;
• to understand the principles and functionalities of Mobile IP, explaining its concretization in IPv4 and IPv6;
• to understand mobility enhanced solutions in IPv4 and IPv6 networks;
• to analyse and understand novel solutions to support the network mobility paradigm;
• to analyse and discuss advanced research works in the areas of IPv6 and Mobile IP;

Bibliography

• William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Prentice Hall, 7 ed, 2003.

• IPv6 Essentials, Silvia Hagen, OReilly, 2002.

• C.Perkins, Mobile IP - Design Principles ans Practices, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

• D.Wisely, P.Eardley, L.Burness, IP for 3G - Networking Technologies for Mobile Comm., Wiley, 2002.

• J.Chen, T.Zhang, IP-based Next-Generation Wireless Network, Wiley, 2004.

• H. Soliman, Mobile IPv6 - Mobility in a wireless Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2004.

-- PauloCarvalho - 07 May 2007