DMET 602: Networks and Media Lab Amr El Mougy Yasmeen EssamAlaa Tarek

Exp 2: Mobile IP

Network Layer4-3 IP Addressing: introduction  IP address: 32-bit identifier for host, router interface  interface: connection between host/router and physical link  router’s typically have multiple interfaces  host typically has one interface  IP addresses associated with each interface =

Network Layer4-4 Subnets  IP address:  subnet part (high order bits)  host part (low order bits)  What’s a subnet ?  device interfaces with same subnet part of IP address  can physically reach each other without intervening router network consisting of 3 subnets subnet

Subnetting 1-5  A class B address is divided into two parts:  network part and  local part  Local part is further divided locally into:  subnet and  host parts  Splitting is done internally, yet looks like a single network to the outside world Network

What is mobility? Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-6  spectrum of mobility, from the network perspective: no mobility high mobility mobile wireless user, using same access point mobile user, passing through multiple access point while maintaining ongoing connections ( like cell phone) mobile user, connecting/ disconnecting from network using DHCP

How do you contact a mobile friend:  search all phone books?  call her parents?  expect her to let you know where he/she is? Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-7 I wonder where Alice moved to? Consider friend frequently changing addresses, how do you find her?

wide area network Mobility: vocabulary Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-8 home network: permanent “home” of mobile (e.g., /24) permanent address: address in home network, can always be used to reach mobile e.g., home agent: entity that will perform mobility functions on behalf of mobile, when mobile is remote

Mobility: more vocabulary Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-9 wide area network care-of-address: address in visited network. (e.g., ) visited network: network in which mobile currently resides (e.g., /24) permanent address: remains constant ( e.g., ) foreign agent: entity in visited network that performs mobility functions on behalf of mobile. correspondent: wants to communicate with mobile

Mobility: approaches Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-10  let routing handle it: routers advertise permanent address of mobile-nodes-in- residence via usual routing table exchange.  routing tables indicate where each mobile located  no changes to end-systems  let end-systems handle it:  indirect routing: communication from correspondent to mobile goes through home agent, then forwarded to remote  direct routing: correspondent gets foreign address of mobile, sends directly to mobile

Mobility: approaches Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-11  let routing handle it: routers advertise permanent address of mobile-nodes-in- residence via usual routing table exchange.  routing tables indicate where each mobile located  no changes to end-systems  let end-systems handle it:  indirect routing: communication from correspondent to mobile goes through home agent, then forwarded to remote  direct routing: correspondent gets foreign address of mobile, sends directly to mobile not scalable to millions of mobiles

wide area network Mobility: registration Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-12 end result:  foreign agent knows about mobile  home agent knows location of mobile home network visited network 1 mobile contacts foreign agent on entering visited network 2 foreign agent contacts home agent home: “this mobile is resident in my network”

Mobility via indirect routing Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-13 wide area network home network visited network correspondent addresses packets using home address of mobile home agent intercepts packets, forwards to foreign agent foreign agent receives packets, forwards to mobile mobile replies directly to correspondent

Indirect Routing: comments Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-14  mobile uses two addresses:  permanent address: used by correspondent (hence mobile location is transparent to correspondent)  care-of-address: used by home agent to forward datagrams to mobile  foreign agent functions may be done by mobile itself  triangle routing: correspondent-home-network-mobile  inefficient when correspondent, mobile are in same network

Indirect routing: moving between networks Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-15  suppose mobile user moves to another network  registers with new foreign agent  new foreign agent registers with home agent  home agent update care-of-address for mobile  packets continue to be forwarded to mobile (but with new care- of-address)  mobility, changing foreign networks transparent: on going connections can be maintained!

Mobility via direct routing Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-16 home network visited network correspondent requests, receives foreign address of mobile correspondent forwards to foreign agent foreign agent receives packets, forwards to mobile mobile replies directly to correspondent

Mobility via direct routing: comments Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-17  overcome triangle routing problem  non-transparent to correspondent: correspondent must get care-of-address from home agent  what if mobile changes visited network?

Accommodating mobility with direct routing Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-18  anchor foreign agent: FA in first visited network  data always routed first to anchor FA  when mobile moves: new FA arranges to have data forwarded from old FA (chaining) wide area network 1 foreign net visited at session start anchor foreign agent 2 4 new foreign agent 3 correspondent agent correspondent new foreign network 5

Changing of Foreign Agent Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-19

Changing of Foreign Agent Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-20

Mobile IP Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-21  RFC 3344  has many features we’ve seen:  home agents, foreign agents, foreign-agent registration, care-of-addresses, encapsulation (packet-within-a-packet)  three components to standard:  indirect routing of datagrams  agent discovery  registration with home agent

Mobile IP: indirect routing Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-22 Permanent address: Care-of address: dest: packet sent by correspondent dest: dest: packet sent by home agent to foreign agent: a packet within a packet dest: foreign-agent-to-mobile packet

IP-in-IP Tunneling Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-23 Mandatory in RFC 2003 tunnel between HA and COA Minimal encapsulation (optional) avoids repetition of identical fields such as TTL, IHL, version, TOS only applicable for unfragmented packets, no space left for fragment identification Modified IP header Minimal forwardingh eader Payload

Mobile IP: agent discovery  agent advertisement: foreign/home agents advertise service by broadcasting ICMP messages (typefield = 9) Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-24 R bit: registration required H,F bits: home and/or foreign agent

Mobile IP: registration example 6-25 visited network: /24 home agent HA: foreign agent COA: mobile agent MA: registration req. COA: HA: MA: Lifetime: 9999 identification:714 …. registration reply HA: MA: Lifetime: 4999 Identification: 714 encapsulation format …. registration reply HA: MA: Lifetime: 4999 Identification: 714 …. time ICMP agent adv. COA: …. registration req. COA: HA: MA: Lifetime: 9999 identification: 714 encapsulation format ….

Reverse Tunneling Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-26

Reverse Tunneling Wireless, Mobile Networks 6-27 Router accept often only “topologically correct“ addresses (firewall!) – a packet from the MN encapsulated by the FA is now topologically correct Reverse tunneling does not solve – problems with firewalls, the reverse tunnel can be abused to circumvent security mechanisms (tunnel hijacking) – optimization of data paths, i.e. packets will be forwarded through the tunnel via the HA to a sender (double triangular routing) Reverse tunneling is backwards compatible – the extensions can be implemented easily and cooperate with current implementations without these extensions