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                    Internet Draft                                      HeeYoung Jung, ETRI 
                    Internet Engineering Task Force                 Hesham Soliman, Flarion 
                    draft-jung-mobopts-fhmipv6-00.txt                     Seok Joo Koh, KNU 
                    Expires October 2005                                  Jae Yong Lee, CNU 
                                                                                 April 2005 
                                                          
                                                          
                                  Fast Handover for Hierarchical MIPv6 (F-HMIPv6)  
                                                          
                                                          
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                   Abstract 
                    
                      This document proposes a scheme to support Fast Handover over HMIPv6 
                      networks. The MIPv6 mobility could be more enhanced by combining 
                      FMIPv6 with HMIPv6, in which MIPv6 is benefited from all the 
                      advantages of the respective schemes. This document describes how to 
                      use FMIPv6 for HMIPv6 (F-HMIPv6). The F-HMIPv6 is designed to be 
                      friendly with the data transport feature of HMIPv6. In F-HMIPv6, the 
                      tunnel for fast handover is established between MAP and NAR, rather 
                      than between PAR and NAR. For this purpose, the MN exchanges the 
                      FMIPv6 messages with MAP, not PAR. The F-HMIPv6 utilizes the FMIPv6 
                      messages for handover support without further defining any new 
                      messages. For the F-HMIPv6, it is proposed to define a new flag 'F' in 
                      the HMIPv6 MAP option. 
                                                         

                    
                    
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                                               Table of Contents 
                       
                      1. Introduction..................................................3 
                      2. Terminology...................................................3 
                      3. A Simple FMIPv6-to-HMIPv6 Scheme..............................4 
                      4. Overview of F-HMIPv6..........................................5 
                         4.1 Reference Architecture....................................5 
                         4.2 Optimized Data Flows in F-HMIPv6..........................6 
                      5. F-HMIPv6 Operations...........................................7 
                         5.1 Mobile-Initiated Handover.................................7 
                         5.2 Network-Initiated Handover................................9 
                         5.3 AR based RtSolPr/PrRtAdv.................................10 
                      6. Messages for F-HMIPv6........................................10 
                         6.1 A New Flag in the HMIPv6 MAP Option......................11 
                         6.2 Use of FMIPv6 messages in F-HMIPv6.......................12 
                      7. Security Considerations......................................12 
                      8. Acknowledgement..............................................13 
                      9. References...................................................13 
                      Author's Addresses..............................................13 
                      Full Copyright Statement........................................14 
                      Intellectual Property...........................................14 
                       
                       
                    
                       















                    
                    
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                   1. Introduction 
                       
                      The HMIPv6 [3] was developed to reduce the signaling overhead and 
                      delay concerned with Binding Update (BU) in Mobile IPv6. In HMIPv6, 
                      when a MN moves within a MAP region, the MN only sends a local BU to 
                      the local MAP, rather than the Home Agent (HA) and Correspondent Node 
                      (CN), as done in Mobile IPv6. If the distance from the MN to HA/CN is 
                      long, this local BU will considerably reduce the time required for the 
                      binding update. 
                       
                      However, the HMIPv6 still need a further enhancement for supporting 
                      the real-time applications because HMIPv6 only concern with the 
                      latency due to BU and does not touch the latency related to Movement 
                      Detection and CoA configuration/Verification. Currently, the FMIPv6 
                      [4] is the typical protocol that was designed to reduce the latency 
                      due to these two remaining issues. Therefore, if we want to support 
                      the fast handover scheme in HMIPv6 network, the simplest approach will 
                      be to apply the FMIPv6 to the HMIPv6 in the straightforward way. 
                       
                      We describe in this document how to use FMIPv6 over HMIPv6 networks so 
                      as to provide better handover performance during handover. At a glance, 
                      it may be straightforward to simply integrate the FMIPv6 scheme with 
                      HMIPv6. However, such simple integration may induce unnecessary 
                      processing overhead for re-tunneling at the previous Access Routers 
                      and also inefficient usage of network bandwidth. The main reason for 
                      this is that the operation of HMIPv6 mainly depends on the 
                      functionality of a MAP, while the major functionalities of FMIPv6 are 
                      located in Access Routers (AR).  
                       
                      This document describes a Fast Handover scheme for HMIPv6, named F-
                      HMIPv6. In F-HMIPv6, the main operation for handover is accomplished 
                      by using MAP, rather than Access Router (i.e. PAR and NAR) like in 
                      FMIPv6. For this purpose, the MN exchanges the signaling messages for 
                      handover such as RtSolPr, PrRtAdv, FBU, and FBACK with MAP, not PAR. 
                      The F-HMIPv6 utilizes the FMIPv6 messages for handover support without 
                      further defining any new messages. For the use of F-HMIPv6, it is 
                      proposed to define a new flag 'F' in the HMIPv6 MAP option. 
                       
                    
                   2. Terminology 
                    
                      The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 
                      "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 
                      document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2]. 
                       
                      This document uses all the terminology described in the MIPv6, HMIPv6, 
                      and FMIPv6 documents. In addition, this document uses the following 
                      terms for the on-link Care of Address (LCoA): 
                       
                    
                    
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                      PLCoA: MN's LCoA valid on the Previous Access Router (PAR). It 
                             corresponds to the PCoA of the FMIPv6. 
                       
                      NLCoA: MN's LCoA valid on the New Access Router (NAR). It corresponds 
                             to the NCoA of the FMIPv6. 
                       
                       
                   3. A Simple FMIPv6-to-HMIPv6 Scheme 
                    
                      A natural and straightforward choice to combine FMIPv6 with HMIPv6 is 
                      to directly apply the FMIPv6 handover scheme in the HMIPv6 networks, 
                      as per their own specifications. In this case, a bi-directional tunnel 
                      will be established between PAR and NAR by the FMIPv6 procedures. In 
                      this case, it may possibly induce inefficient signaling and data 
                      forwarding path. 
                       
                      Figure 1 shows the data flow during handover by the simple integration 
                      of FMIPv6 with HMIPv6.  
                       
                       
                       
                                     CN         PAR         MAP        MN(at NAR) 
                                     |           |           |           |  
                                     |         MIPv6         |           |  
                                     |---------------------->|           |  
                                     |           |           |           |  
                                     |           |  HMIPv6   |           |  
                                     |           |<----------|           |  
                                     |           |           |           |  
                                     |           |        FMIPv6         |  
                                     |           |---------------------->|  
                                     |           |           |           |  
                         
                                                          
                                       Figure 1: Data flows in simple scheme 
                       
                       
                      According to the HMIPv6 operations, the data packets sent by CN will 
                      arrive at MAP and then be tunneled to MN over PLCoA. When the handover 
                      is initiated, a bi-directional tunnel will be established between PAR 
                      and NAR according to the FMIPv6 procedures. To forward the data 
                      packets to the NAR by using the tunnel, the PAR must first intercept 
                      those data packets flowing from the MAP, and then perform the re-
                      tunneling process. This may be done by adding a new outer IP header of 
                      <Source = PAR, Destination = NAR> to the data packets sent by MAP 
                      according to the HMIPv6 operations.  
                       
                      In the viewpoint of the HMIPv6 operations, the simple straightforward 
                      approach has the following disadvantages: 
                    
                    
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                      (1) The PAR must perform the tunneling operations for fast handover, 
                          in addition to the HMIPv6 tunneling from MAP to MN. To do this, 
                          the PAR must first intercept the data packets flowing from the MAP, 
                          which will be an additional overhead for HMIPv6. It is noted that 
                          the data delivery in HMIPv6 is performed based on MAP. 
                       
                      (2) In HMIPv6, the actual data path of the bi-directional tunnel 
                          between PAR and NAR may include the MAP (i.e., PAR-MAP-NAR). 
                          Accordingly, the data packets will flow twice along the path 
                          between ARs and MAP. This induces inefficiency of network 
                          bandwidth usage, especially when ARs are connected to the network 
                          through bandwidth-limited links.   
                       
                      (3) During handover, the possibility that the tunneled packets from 
                          PAR to NAR before F-BU arrive later at NAR than the packet sent 
                          directly from MAP by F-BU is relatively high. It will be the cause 
                          of the reversed sequence packets in NAR and the packets with 
                          reversed sequence makes TCP performance worse. 
                       
                      (4) From such detouring feature, the overall handover latency and 
                          tunneling overhead may increase during the handover period. 
                          Moreover, it is likely to be difficult to exploit the advantages 
                          of FMIPv6 and HMIPv6 as well. 
                       
                      (5) In hierarchical architecture like HMIPv6, the maintenance of 
                          information for neighbor ARs in each AR may be overhead. 
                       
                      From the observations described above, it is clear that the fast 
                      handover for HMIPv6 needs to be designed by considering the data 
                      transport features of the HMIPv6 (i.e., in HMIPv6, all data packets 
                      are intercepted by MAP and delivered over the tunnel between MAP and 
                      MNs). 
                    
                    
                   4. Overview of F-HMIPv6 
                    
                   4.1 Reference Architecture 
                    
                      Figure 2 illustrates a reference configuration of the F-HMIPv6 network 
                      for fast handover support. In the figure, the MAP acts as an 
                      aggregation router in the hierarchical domain.  
                                 
                      When a mobile node (MN) enters a new HMIPv6 domain, firstly it 
                      performs the HMIPv6 registrations procedures with HA and MAP, as per 
                      MIPv6 and HMIPv6. Also, if the MN moves from a previous AR (PAR) to a 
                      new AR (NAR) within the domain, it will follow the Local Binding 
                      Update procedures of HMIPv6. At that time, if the fast handover is 

                    
                    
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                      required for an on-going data session between MN and CN, then the F-
                      HMIPv6 scheme will apply to the MN, ARs and MAP. 
                                
                                
                                            +-------+  
                                            |  HA   |      
                                            +-------+   
                                                |           +----+  
                                                |           | CN |      
                                                |           +----+  
                                                +-----+        |  
                                                      |    +---+  
                                                      |    |  
                                                    +-------+  
                                                    |  MAP  | RCoA  
                                                    +-------+  
                                                     |     |  
                                                     |     +--------+  
                                                     |              |  
                                                 +-----+         +-----+  
                                          PLCoA  | PAR |         | NAR | NLCoA 
                                                 +-----+         +-----+                             
                                        
                                                +----+  
                                                | MN |  -------------> 
                                                +----+  Movement  
                       
                                   Figure 2: Reference Architecture for F-HMIPv6 
                       
                       
                   4.2 Optimized Data Flows in F-HMIPv6 
                       
                      By the F-HMIPv6 scheme, the data packets sent by CN will be tunneled 
                      by the MAP toward the NAR during the handover. 
                       
                      Figure 3 illustrates the data flows that F-HMIPv6 is willing to 
                      achieve. 
                       
                       
                                     CN         PAR         MAP         MN(at NAR)  
                                     |           |           |           |  
                                     |   MIPv6   |           |           |  
                                     |---------------------->|           |   
                                     |           |           |           |  
                                     |           |           | F-HMIPv6  |  
                                     |           |           |---------->|  
                                     |           |           |           |  
                        
                                    Figure 3: Optimized data flows by F-HMIPv6 
                    
                    
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                      Before handover, according to the HMIPv6 operations, the data packets 
                      sent by CN are tunneled by MAP to MN with the following IP fields: 
                       
                        o Inner IP header: <Source = CN, Destination = RCoA of MN> 
                        o Outer IP header: <Source = MAP, Destination = PLCoA of MN> 
                       
                      When the F-HMIPv6 handover is triggered (e.g., by receiving the FBU 
                      message from the MN), the MAP will establish a bi-directional tunnel 
                      with the NAR, and then begin to forward the data packets to the NAR 
                      over the tunnel. By the tunnel, each data packet has an additional 
                      outer IP header to the normal HMIPv6 headers with the following IP 
                      fields: 
                       
                        o Additional outer IP header: <S = MAP, Destination = NAR> 
                       
                      When receiving the tunneled data packets from the MAP, the NAR will 
                      de-capsulate them and then be caching the decapsulated data packets. 
                      When the MN moves into the NAR region, the NAR will deliver the cached 
                      data packets to the MN, as done in FMIPv6. 
                       
                       
                   5. F-HMIPv6 Operations 
                    
                      In this section, we describe the generic F-HMIPv6 operations. It is 
                      assumed that the handover anticipation is supported with appropriate 
                      layer 2 triggers; and that the MNs as well as ARs are aware of the F-
                      HMIPv6 scheme described in this document. 
                       
                      The F-HMIPv6 procedures described in this section are based on the 
                      assumption that the MAP already has the information necessary for 
                      handover support about the ARs located in the HMIPv6 domain. This 
                      information should include the link-layer address (or identifier) and 
                      network prefix of each AR.  
                       
                   5.1 Mobile-Initiated Handover 
                       
                      Figure 4 illustrates the generic procedures for F-HMIPv6 operations.  
                    









                    
                    
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                       MN(at PAR)       PAR            MAP            NAR        MN(at NAR) 
                          |              |              |              |             | 
                          |    HMIPv6 Data (before HO)  |              |             | 
                          |<===========================>|              |             | 
                          | RtSolPr      |              |              |             | 
                          |---------------------------->|              |             | 
                          | PrRtAdv      |              |              |             | 
                          |<----------------------------|              |             | 
                          |     FBU      |              |      HI      |             | 
                          |---------------------------->|------------->|             | 
                          |              |              |     HACK     |             | 
                          |              |              |<-------------|             | 
                          |              |        FBACK | FBACK        |             | 
                          |         <-------------------|------------------->        |  
                       Disconnect        |              |              |             |  
                          |              |              |Packet Forward|             | 
                          |              |              |=============>|             | 
                        Connect          |              |         Packet Delivery by FNA  
                          |              |              |              |============>|  
                          |              |     Stop     |             LBU            | 
                          |              |   Forwarding |<---------------------------|         
                          |              |    to NAR    |             LBACK          | 
                          |              |              |--------------------------->| 
                          |              |              |    HMIPv6 Data (after HO)  | 
                          |              |              |<==========================>| 
                          |              |              |              |             | 
                         
                                   Figure 4: F-HMIPv6 for Mobile-Initiated Handover 
                       
                       
                      Note that the control messages depicted in Figure 4 have identical 
                      format to those in FMIPv6; only the contents (the IP source and 
                      destination fields) are different. These values are described more in 
                      details in Section 6.  
                       
                      The detailed description for the control flows are given below: 
                       
                        1) Based on L2 handover anticipation, the MN sends RtSolPr message 
                           to MAP. The RtSolPr SHOULD include information about the link 
                           layer address or identifier of the concerned NAR. 
                       
                        2) In response to the RtSolPr message, the MAP sends the PrRtAdv 
                           message to the MN, which SHOULD contain information about NLCoA 
                           for the MN to use in the NAR region; i. e, NARs network prefix 
                           for stateless auto-configuration or NLCoA for stateful 
                           configuration. 
                    
                           Note in F-HMIPv6 that the MAP SHOULD already know the network 
                           prefix and link layer address of the associated NAR. 
                    
                    
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                        3) The MN sends Fast Binding Update (FBU) message to MAP. The FBU 
                           message contains PLCoA and IP address of the NAR. 
                       
                        4) After receiving the FBU message from MN, the MAP will send a 
                           Handover Initiate (HI) message to the NAR so as to establish a 
                           bi-directional tunnel.  
                       
                           In response to the HI message, the NAR will set up a host route 
                           entry for the MN's PLCoA and then respond with a Handover 
                           Acknowledge (HACK) message.  
                           
                           As a result, a bi-directional tunnel between MAP and NAR will be 
                           established. Over the tunnel, the data packets sent by MAP have 
                           the additional outer IP header with the following IP fields of 
                           <Source = MAP, Destination = NAR>. The NAR may cache those data 
                           packets flowing from the MAP, until it receives the RS (possibly 
                           with FNA option) message from the newly incoming MN.  
                    
                        5) The MAP sends Fast Binding ACK (FBACK) messages toward the MN 
                           over PLCoA and NLCoA. Then, the MAP will begin to forward the 
                           data packets destined to MN to the NAR by using the established 
                           tunnel. 
                       
                        6) The MN sends FNA messages to NAR, when it detects that it is 
                           moved in the link layer. Then, the NAR delivers the buffered data 
                           packets to the MN over PLCoA. 
                            
                        7) The MN then follows the normal HMIPv6 operations by sending a 
                           Local Binding Update (LBU) to MAP, as per HMIPv6. 
                       
                           When the MAP receives the new Local Binding Update with NLCoA 
                           from the MN, it will stop the packet forwarding to NAR and then 
                           clear the tunnel established for fast handover.  
                    
                        8) In response to LBU, the MAP sends Local Binding ACK (LBACK) to MN, 
                           and the remaining procedures will follow the HMIPv6. 
                       
                       
                   5.2 Network-Initiated Handover 
                       
                      This section describes the F-HMIPv6 operations for the network-
                      initiated handover. In the network-initiated case, it is assumed that 
                      the PAR or NAR detects the movement of the MN from the PAR toward the 
                      NAR.  
                       
                      Figure 5 illustrates the F-HMIPv6 operations for the network-initiated 
                      handover case.  
                    
                    
                    
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                        MN(at PAR)       PAR            MAP            NAR        MN(at NAR) 
                           |              |              |              |             | 
                           |              |  Trigger(ST) |  Trigger(TT) |             | 
                           |              |~~~~~~~~~~~~~>|<~~~~~~~~~~~~~|             | 
                           |              |              |              |             | 
                           | PrRtAdv      |              |              |             | 
                           |<----------------------------|              |             |   
                           |              |              |              |             | 
                     
                                   Figure 5: F-HMIPv6 for Network-Initiated Handover 
                       
                       
                      When the PAR receives a source trigger or the NAR receives a target 
                      trigger from the network, it sends a handover indication signal to the 
                      MAP, possibly via an out-of-band signaling. Such the signal SHOULD 
                      include information about the link layer address and PLCoA of the 
                      concerned MN as well as the link layer address or identifier of the 
                      associated NAR. 
                       
                      When a network-initiated handover is indicated, the MAP sends the 
                      PrRtAdv message to the concerned MN. The PrRtAdv message SHOULD 
                      contain information about NLCoA for the MN to use in the NAR region. 
                       
                      The remaining procedures are identical to those for the mobile-
                      initiated handover case, as shown in Figure 4. 
                       
                   5.3 AR based RtSolPr/PrRtAdv 
                       
                      F-HMIPv6 assumes that a MAP has necessary information about its 
                      serving ARs such as IP address and link layer ID. It seems to be 
                      natural if we refer convenient mobile networks that are hierarchically 
                      configured. 
                       
                      If an access system provides the information sharing between ARs, the 
                      direct exchange of RtSolPr/PrRtAdv between an MN and an AR may be more 
                      effective. It is expected that the shorter signaling path can bring 
                      the lower latency. This kind of approach was already touched in the 
                      HMIPv6 (Appendix A). In this case, the procedure that described in the 
                      draft could be used for remaining procedure as shown in Figure 4. 
                       
                       
                   6. Messages for F-HMIPv6 
                        
                      In this document, it is assumed that the MNs and ARs (including MAP) 
                      in the network are aware of the F-HMIPv6 described in this document as 
                      well as HMIPv6 [4]. For realizing the F-HMIPv6, the messages and 
                      functionality (e.g., triggers and tunnels) defined in FMIPv6 [5] will 
                      be used with slightly different procedures.  
                    
                    
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                      The F-HMIPv6 is basically designed to exploit all the messages defined 
                      in FMIPv6 and HMIPv6 with the following exceptions: 
                       
                      - A new flag is defined in the HMIPv6 MAP option, so as to indicate 
                        whether the MAP supports the F-HMIPv6 or not within the HMIPv6 
                        domain.  
                       
                      - Some of the FMIPv6 messages have different IP source and destination 
                        addresses in the respective IP fields. In particular, the MAP 
                        address is used instead of the PAR address. 
                       
                       
                   6.1 A New Flag in the HMIPv6 MAP Option 
                       
                      Figure 6 shows the MAP option used for HMIPv6. A new flag 'F' is added 
                      for F-HMIPv6. 
                       
                      When a MN moves into a new MAP domain, it receives the Router 
                      Advertisement with a MAP option from an access router. When the F bit 
                      set in the MAP option indicates that the mobile node MAY use F-HMIPv6. 
                      If the MN is not aware of F-HMIPv6, or the F bit is not set, it SHOULD 
                      NOT use F-HMIPv6.  
                         
                          
                          0                   1                   2                   3   
                          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1   
                         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   
                         |     Type      |    Length     | Dist  | Pref  |R|I|P|V|F| Res |   
                         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   
                         |                      Valid Lifetime                           |   
                         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   
                         |                                                               |   
                         +                                                               +   
                         |                                                               |   
                         +                  Global IP Address for MAP                    +   
                         |                                                               |   
                         +                                                               +   
                         |                                                               |   
                         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   
                          
                                        Figure 6: A new flag in the MAP option  
                        
                          Fields:   
                               
                                F                  When set indicates that the MAP support  
                                                   fast handover by F-HMIPv6.  
                         

                    
                    
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                   6.2 Use of FMIPv6 messages in F-HMIPv6 
                       
                      F-HMIPv6 uses the messages for fast handover defined in FMIPv6, with 
                      different source and destination IP addresses. Table 1 summarizes the 
                      use of these messages. 
                       
                                Table 1. Use of FMIPv6 Messages in F-HMIPv6 
                       
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |   F-HMIPv6   | Source IP | Destination |  Usage in FMIPv6    | 
                      |   Messages   |  address  |  IP address |                     |  
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |   RtSolPr    |    MN     |    MAP      | Destination = PAR   | 
                      |(Mobile-Ini.) |           |             | Source = MN         | 
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+ 
                      |   RtSolPr    |   PAR     |    MAP      | Destination = PAR   | 
                      |(Network-Ini.)|           |             | Source = MN         | 
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |   PrRtAdv    |   MAP     |     MN      |   Source = PAR      |  
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |     FBU      |    MN     |    MAP      | Destination = PAR   | 
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |    FBACK     |   MAP     |     MN      |   Source = PAR      |  
                      |              |           |(via PAR/NAR)|                     |  
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |     HI       |   MAP     |    NAR      |   Source = PAR      |  
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                      |    HACK      |   NAR     |    MAP      | Destination = PAR   | 
                      +--------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+  
                       
                       
                   7. Security Considerations 
                       
                      The security issues of F-HMIPv6 are basically in line with those of 
                      FMIPv6 and HMIPv6.  
                       
                      Note that the MN and MAP could have an IPsec security association in 
                      HMIPv6, thus the RtSolPr and PrRtAdv messages can also be protected 
                      with IPsec. This feature actually provides an advantage over FMIPv6 
                      where ND messages cannot be secured in its present form. 
                       
                      In addition, the MAP MUST ensure that the RtSolPr and FBU packets 
                      arrived from an MN that legitimately owns the RCoA. Otherwise, a bogus 
                      node could attempt to disrupt packets meant for the MN and redirect 
                      them to some access router.  
                       
                      Further security issues will be identified, as the F-HMIPv6 work is 
                      progressing. 
                    
                    
                    
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                   8. Acknowledgement 
                    
                      The Authors would like to give special thanks to the following people 
                      for their valuable comments and discussion for enhancing the F-HMIPv6.  
                       
                      Jun Seob Lee (ETRI) 
                      Bryan Hartwell (Ashnet) 
                    
                    
                   9. References 
                    
                      [1] S. Bradner, " Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology", 
                         BCP 79, RFC 3668, February 2004.  
                       
                      [2] S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement 
                         Levels", BCP, RFC 2119, March 1997.  
                       
                      [3] D. Johnson, et al., "Mobility Support in IPv6", RFC 3775, June 
                         2004. 
                       
                      [4] H. Soliman, et al., "Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 mobility management 
                         (HMIPv6)", draft-ietf-mipshop-hmipv6-04, December 2004.  
                       
                      [5] R. Koodli, et al., "Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6", draft-ietf-
                         mipshop-fast-mipv6-03, October 2004. 
                    
                    
                   Author's Addresses 
                           
                          HeeYoung Jung 
                          hyjung@etri.re.kr 
                          Protocol Engineering Center, ETRI 
                           
                          Hesham Soliman 
                          H.Soliman@flarion.com 
                          Flarion 
                           
                          Seok J. Koh 
                          sjkoh@knu.ac.kr  
                          Kyungpook National University     
                           
                          Jae Yong Lee 
                          jyl@cnu.ac.kr 
                          Chungnam National University  
                           
                           
                           
                           

                    
                    
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