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Mobility Related Terminology
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Network Working Group J. Manner, Ed.
Request for Comments: 3753 M. Kojo, Ed.
Category: Informational June 2004
Mobility Related Terminology
Status of this Memo
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not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).
Abstract
There is a need for common definitions of terminology in the work to
be done around IP mobility. This document defines terms for mobility
related terminology. The document originated out of work done in the
Seamoby Working Group but has broader applicability for terminology
used in IETF-wide discourse on technology for mobility and IP
networks. Other working groups dealing with mobility may want to
take advantage of this terminology.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. General Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Mobile Access Networks and Mobile Networks. . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Handover Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1. Scope of Handover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2. Handover Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3. Simultaneous connectivity to Access Routers . . . . . . 19
4.4. Performance and Functional Aspects. . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.5. Micro Diversity, Macro Diversity, and IP Diversity. . . 21
4.6. Paging, and Mobile Node States and Modes. . . . . . . . 22
4.7. Context Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.8. Candidate Access Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.9. Types of Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5. Specific Terminology for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking . . . . . . 26
6. Security-related Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
8. Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
10. Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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