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U3.1 Mobile IP Related Terminology

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U3.1 Mobile IP Related Terminology

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UNIT 3: Mobile IP and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile IP related Terminology

Packet delivery to and from a mobile node

The packet delivery to and from a mobile node has been schematically shown in above Fig. In this figure,
a correspondent node (CN) is connected via a router to the Internet, and the home network and the
foreign network are also connected via a router, i.e. the home agent (HA) and foreign agent (FA),
respectively, to the Internet. Therefore, home agent (HA) is implemented on the router connecting the
home network with the Internet, a foreign agent (FA) is also implemented on the router connecting the
foreign network with the Internet. The tunnel for the packets towards the mobile node starts at the
home agent and ends at the foreign agent, again here the foreign agent has the care-of-address (COA).
It can be observed in the above Fig. that several terminologies are associated with mobile IP.

Mobile Node (MN): A mobile node is a hand-held equipment with roaming capabilities. It can be a cell
phone, personal digital assistant, laptop, etc.
Home Network: The home network of a mobile device is the network within which the device receives
its identifying IP address (home address).
Home Agent (HA): The HA stores information about all mobile nodes whose permanent home address is
in the network assigned to the HA. HA maintains a location registry. The location registry keeps track of
the node locations using the current care-of-address of the MN.
Foreign Agent (FA): The foreign agent is a router in a foreign network that functions as the point of
attachment for a mobile node when it roams to the foreign network. The packets from the home agent
are sent to the foreign node which delivers it to the mobile node.
Foreign Network: The foreign network is the current subnet to which the mobile node is visiting.
Correspondent Node (CN): The home agent is a router on the home network serving as the anchor point
for communication with the mobile node. It tunnells packets from a device on the Internet, called a
correspondent node (CN), to the roaming mobile node.
Care-of-Address (COA): It is the address that is used to identify the present location of a foreign agent.
The packets sent to the MN are delivered to COA. The COA can be any of the following two types: (a)
Foreign agent COA: The COA is an IP address of foreign agent (FA). (b) Co-located COA: When the
mobile node (MN) acquires a temporary IP address, that address acts as the COA.

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