Mobile IP(Internet Protocol)- Definition and working of Mobile IP, Key Mechanism in Mobile IP
Mobile IP Mobile IP is a communication protocol(set of rules is called protocol) that allows the user to use the same IP address when user moves from one network to another network. It ensures that the communication will continue without user's session or connections being dropped. Working Of Mobile IP Correspondent node sends the data to the mobile node. Data packets contains correspondent node’s address (Source) and home address (Destination). Packets reaches to the home agent. But now mobile node is not in the home network, it has moved into the foreign network. Foreign agent sends the care- of-address to the home agent to which all the packets should be sent. Now, a tunnel will be established between the home agent and the foreign agent by the process of tunneling. Tunneling establishes a virtual pipe for the packets available between a tunnel entry and an endpoint. It is the process of sending a packet via a tunnel and it is achieved by a mechanism called...