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What is Forwarding Agent

Chapter 51
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A network element that forwards packets addressed to a mobile node to the current location of the mobile node. This is a non-standard term introduced by us to represent this concept that is not explicitly defined in the Mobile IPv6 specifications.
Published in Chapter:
Network-Layer Mobility Protocols for IPv6-Based Networks
K. Daniel Wong (Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Malaysia) and Ashutosh Dutta (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch051
Abstract
The Internet is in some ways like the proverbial massive software project whose requirements keep changing, and which is never completed. When the Internet protocols were first designed, there was no concept of the future requirement that IP would need to support mobility. In today’s wireless world, mobility support is one of the key requirements for IP. Like the requirements for QoS, security, and multimedia support, the mobility requirement has arisen due to the phenomenal success of the Internet, as a result of which people want to do more and more things over the Internet.
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