Overview
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TCP/IP goes mobile!
The complete guide to developing, using, and profiting from Mobile IP networks.
Mobile IP brings together two of the world's most powerful technology trends: the Internet and mobile communications. Whether you're planning to develop, deploy, utilize, or invest in Mobile IP networks, this book delivers the up-to-date information you need-with clarity and insight. Discover:
- What problems Mobile IP is designed to solve, and how it solves them
- How to use Mobile IP in real-world intranet and Internet-wide applications
- How to manage the security issues associated with Mobile IP
- Business models for delivering commercial Mobile IP services
- Which technical issues still need work-and possible solutions
In Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged, the co-chair of the Mobile IP Working Group offers an insider's view of critical Mobile IP concepts like agent discovery, registration, and IP encapsulation. He presents detailed coverage of Mobile IP security, including the role of key management, encryption, authentication, integrity checking, and nonrepudiation. Finally, he presents a compelling vision of the future, where the benefits of standards-based mobile data are available everywhere.
Guide to the applications and security issues of the Mobile IP standard now under review. Mobile IP is based on current IPv4 and IPv6 standards, enhances IP to accommodate mobility, and "...allows a mobile node (e.g., a laptop or notebook computer) to change location without the need to restart its applications or terminate any ongoing communication." Describes the operational context of Mobile IP, proposes solutions to existing problems and provides sample Mobile IP configurations. This publication clarifies relevant RFCs, explains technical issues and focuses on the administrative and security implications of this new data communication paradigm. Provides a clear and concise networking overview, discusses problems associated with mobility, such as; "What happens when a node changes links?" or "What if I only need nomadicity?"
Synopsis
Mobile IP (Internet Protocol) brings together two of the world's most powerful technology trends: the Internet and mobile communications. This is the first book to clearly explain what Mobile IP is, how it works, and the security implications of its use. "This could become the Mobile IP "bible"... — Gabriel Montenegro, Sun Microsystems.
Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged reviews the problems Mobile IP is designed to solve, and how it solves them. It shows how to use Mobile IP in real-world campus and Internet-wide applications, and reviews the state-of-the-art in Mobile IP network security — including the role of key management, encryption, authentication, integrity checking and non-repudiation. There is also detailed coverage of essential concepts including agent discovery, registration, IP encapsulation. The book also presents models for delivering commercial service using Mobile IP, and reviews the technical issues that still need attention. Part of the Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems, Radia Perlman, Series Editor.
For anyone interested in mobile internetworking as an implementer, network manager, architect, service provider, or student.
Booknews
The co-chair of the Mobile IP working group details an Internet standards-track protocol which enhances the existing Internet Protocol (IP) to accommodate mobility. He discusses the Internet standards documents known as Request For Commands (RFCs), the administrative and security implications of Mobile IP and its applications, as well as directions for future research. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Editorials
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Guide to the applications and security issues of the Mobile IP standard now under review. Mobile IP is based on current IPv4 and IPv6 standards, enhances IP to accommodate mobility, and "...allows a mobile node (e.g., a laptop or notebook computer) to change location without the need to restart its applications or terminate any ongoing communication." Describes the operational context of Mobile IP, proposes solutions to existing problems and provides sample Mobile IP configurations. This publication clarifies relevant RFCs, explains technical issues and focuses on the administrative and security implications of this new data communication paradigm. Provides a clear and concise networking overview, discusses problems associated with mobility, such as; "What happens when a node changes links?" or "What if I only need nomadicity?"Begins a top-down unraveling of Mobile IP, from a high level overview of requirements and design goals to the details of agent discovery, registration, packet routing and tunneling. Explains security and integrity issues, authentication systems management, and begins to build sample applications, from campus to Internet-wide mobility. Then turns the discussion of mobile applications around and views the problems and solutions from the perspective of a service provider. Concludes this exposition with an examination of future topics (IPv6 mobility), relevant and open issues such as performance, real-time traffic, and service location concerns. A logically organized, clear, lucid and jargon free exposition of our very near data communication future.
The author is co-chair of the Mobile IP Working Group, of the Internet EngineeringTask Force (IETF) and shepherded the final working group standards document to approval in June 1996.