Emerging Mobility Applications of Host Identity Protocol

Abstract

This chapter is devoted to give an overview of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) and to discuss two different mobility management extensions built on it. We introduce the basic ideas and the main paradigms behind the HIP-scheme, and show its wild range usability in next generation mobile and ubiquitous networks. The broad scale of possible advanced mobility applications of HIP will be introduced based on two extensions of the protocol, both developed by the authors. The first one is a micromobility solution based on HIP (µHIP), while the second one provides a scalable and secure network mobility solution (HIP-NEMO).