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LISP-MN: Mobile Networking Through LISP

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The current Internet architecture was not designed to easily accommodate mobility because IP addresses are used both to identify and locate hosts. The Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) decouples them by considering two types of addresses: EIDs that identify hosts, and RLOCs that identify network attachment points and are used as routing locators. LISP, with such separation in place, can also offer native mobility. LISP-MN is a particular case of LISP which specifies mobility. In this paper we provide a comprehensive tutorial on LISP-MN, showing its main features and how it compares to existing mobility protocols.

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/ JordiGirona s/n, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Rodríguez Natal, Loránd Jakab & Albert Cabellos Aparicio

  2. Centre Tecnologic de Comunicacions de Catalunya Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

    Marc Portolés

  3. Cisco Systems, 170 Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA

    Vina Ermagan, Preethi Natarajan, Fabio Maino & David Meyer

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This work has been partially supported by a Cisco Unsolicited Research Proposal Grant.

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Rodríguez Natal, A., Jakab, L., Portolés, M. et al. LISP-MN: Mobile Networking Through LISP. Wireless Pers Commun 70, 253–266 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0692-5

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