Nautilus6 - Seamless Mobility Activity

The activities turning around host mobility, network mobility and multihoming concentrate on the pre-requisites features which will allow ubiquitous mobility. However, performance is also necessary to reach deployment of the technology, and that's why efficient handoffs mechanisms are required. The purpose of this activity is to investigate and implement fast handoffs mechanisms for mobile hosts and routers. We will have to care both about horizontal and vertical handoffs since mobile nodes will switch between access networks. For the longer term, we also need to consider fast handoff mechanisms when mobile nodes cross domain boundaries.

This activity is in its infancy. Our objective is to implement standards currently being defined at the IETF, and to validate them in combination with other mobility features. So far, we haven't determined if any functionality is missing or if there are issues with those protocols specified by the IETF. For the actual validation, we need to develop tools as it is extremely difficult to test such kind of protocols under a real situation.

FMIPv6 implementations are available for Linux and BSD operating systems. Check the implementation page.