A new Route Optimization Protocol for Mobile IPv6 (ROM)

Abstract

Mobile IPv6 is the mobility protocol of the IPv6 protocol. The mobility feature in IPv6 is supposed to be default, but there are still obstacles carrying out deployment. Great needs for this new Internet Protocol are security, scalability, efficiency and the lack of IPv4 addresses. Deployment of this long needed new protocol has been delayed partly due to the route optimization problem of mobile nodes. Route optimization is the property of sending data via the shortest route, even when the mobile node is roaming, thereby making packet sending between a mobile node and a corresponding node through the mobile node’s home network for further redirection obsolete. Any other nodes communicating with a mobile node are referred to as corresponding nodes. Routing packets over the shortest route will both decrease the latency of data transmission and bandwidth consumption. In this paper, we suggest a new route optimization protocol for Mobile IPv6 (ROM), which we will show as a more efficient solution to this problem than other existing schemes.