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RFC 4068: Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 5268.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 5568 — Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

Mobile IPv6 enables a Mobile Node to maintain its connectivity to the Internet when moving from one Access Router to another, a process referred to as handover. During handover, there is a period during which the Mobile Node is unable to send or receive packets because of link switching delay and IP protocol operations. This "handover latency" resulting from standard Mobile IPv6 procedures, namely movement detection, new Care of Address configuration, and Binding Update, is often unacceptable to real-time traffic such as Voice over IP. Reducing the handover latency could be beneficial to non-real-time, throughput-sensitive applications as well. This document specifies a protocol to improve handover latency due to Mobile IPv6 procedures. This document does not address improving the link switching latency. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

Document record

Document ID
RFC4068
Published
July 2005
Authors
R. Koodli
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
42
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 5268

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 4068 (2005)
  2. RFC 5268 (2008)
  3. RFC 5568 (2009) ✓

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