Internet Draft                                                P. McCann
Document: draft-ietf-mipshop-80211fh-04.txt         Lucent Technologies
Expires: August 2005                                      February 2005



              Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 802.11 Networks


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Abstract

   This document describes how a Mobile IPv6 Fast Handover could be
   implemented on link layers conforming to the 802.11 suite of
   specifications.















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Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [1].


Table of Contents

   1. Introduction...................................................2
   2. Terminology....................................................3
   3. Deployment Architectures for Mobile IPv6 on 802.11.............4
   4. 802.11 Handovers in Detail.....................................5
   5. FMIPv6 Message Exchanges.......................................7
   6. Beacon Scanning and NAR Discovery..............................8
   7. Scenarios......................................................9
      7.1 Scenario 1abcdef23456g....................................10
      7.2 Scenario ab123456cdefg....................................10
      7.3 Scenario 123456abcdefg....................................10
   8. Security Considerations.......................................11
   9. Conclusions...................................................12
   10. References...................................................13
   11. Acknowledgments..............................................14
   12. Author's Address.............................................14


1. Introduction

   The Mobile IPv6 Fast Handover protocol [2] has been proposed as a way
   to minimize the interruption in service experienced by a Mobile IPv6
   node as it changes its point of attachment to the Internet.  Without
   such a mechanism, a mobile node cannot send or receive packets from
   the time that it disconnects from one point of attachment in one
   subnet to the time it registers a new care-of address from the new
   point of attachment in a new subnet.  Such an interruption would be
   unacceptable for real-time services such as Voice-over-IP.

   The basic idea behind a Mobile IPv6 fast handover is to leverage
   information from the link-layer technology to either predict or
   rapidly respond to a handover event.  This allows IP connectivity to
   be restored at the new point of attachment sooner than would
   otherwise be possible.  By tunneling data between the old and new
   access routers, it is possible to provide IP connectivity in advance
   of actual Mobile IP registration with the home agent or correspondent
   node.  This allows real-time services to be re-established without
   waiting for such Mobile IP registration to complete.  Because Mobile
   IP registration involves time-consuming Internet round-trips, the
   Mobile IPv6 fast handover can provide for a smaller interruption in
   real-time services than an ordinary Mobile IP handover.


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   The particular link-layer information available, as well as the
   timing of its availability (before, during, or after a handover has
   occurred), differs according to the particular link-layer technology
   in use.  This document gives a set of deployment examples for Mobile
   IPv6 Fast Handovers on 802.11 networks.  We begin with a brief
   overview of relevant aspects of basic 802.11 [3].  We examine how and
   when handover information might become available to the IP layers
   that implement Fast Handover, both in the network infrastructure and
   on the mobile node.  Finally, we trace the protocol steps for Mobile
   IPv6 Fast Handover in this environment.


2. Terminology

   This document borrows all of the terminology from Mobile IPv6 Fast
   Handovers [2], with the following additional terms from the 802.11
   specification [3] (some definitions slightly modified for clarity):

   Access Point (AP): Any entity that has station functionality and
                  provides access to the distribution services, via the
                  wireless medium (WM) for associated stations.

   Association:   The service used to establish access point/station
                  (AP/STA) mapping and enable STA access to the
                  Distribution System.

   Basic Service Set (BSS): A set of stations controlled by a single
                  coordination function, where the coordination
                  function may be centralized (e.g., in a single AP) or
                  distributed (e.g., for an ad-hoc network).  The BSS
                  can be thought of as the coverage area of a single
                  AP.

   Distribution System (DS): A system used to interconnect a set of
                  basic service sets (BSSs) and integrated local area
                  networks (LANs) to create an extended service set
                  (ESS).

   Extended Service Set (ESS): A set of one or more interconnected
                  basic service sets (BSSs) and integrated local area
                  networks (LANs) that appears as a single BSS to the
                  logical link control layer at any station associated
                  with one of those BSSs.  The ESS can be thought of as
                  the coverage area provided by a collection of APs all
                  interconnected by the Distribution System.  It may
                  consist of one or more IP subnets.




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   Station (STA): Any device that contains an IEEE 802.11 conformant
                  medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
                  interface to the wireless medium (WM).


3. Deployment Architectures for Mobile IPv6 on 802.11

   In this section we describe the two most likely relationships between
   Access Points (APs), Access Routers (ARs), and IP subnets that are
   possible in an 802.11 network deployment.  In this document our focus
   is mainly on the infrastructure mode [3] of 802.11.  Usually, a given
   STA is associated with one and only one AP at any given instant;
   however, implementations are possible [4] where multiple associations
   per STA may be maintained as long as the APs are connected to
   disjoint DSs.  A STA may be in communication with an AP only when
   radio propagation conditions permit.  Note that, as with any layer-2
   technology, handover from one layer-2 point of attachment (AP) to
   another does not necessarily mean a change of AR or subnet.


                  AR                              AR
            AR     |    AR                   AR    |     AR
              \    |   /                       \   |    /
               Subnet 1                         Subnet 2
             /  /  |  \  \                    /  /  |  \  \
            /  /   |   \  \                  /  /   |   \  \
           /   |   |   |   \                /   |   |   |   \
        AP1  AP2  AP3  AP4  AP5          AP6  AP7  AP8  AP9  AP10

             Figure 1: An 802.11 deployment with relay APs.

   Figure 1 depicts a typical 802.11 deployment with two IP subnets,
   each with three Access Routers and five Access Points.  Note that the
   APs in this figure are acting as link-layer relays, which means that
   they transport Ethernet-layer frames between the wireless medium and
   the subnet.  Note that APs do not generally implement any particular
   spanning tree algorithm, yet are more sophisticated than simple
   bridges that would relay all traffic; only traffic addressed to STAs
   known to be associated on a given AP would be forwarded.  Each subnet
   is on top of a single LAN or VLAN, and we assume in this example that
   APs 6-10 cannot reach the VLAN on which Subnet 1 is implemented.
   Note that a handover from AP1 to AP2 does not require a change of AR
   (here we assume the STA will be placed on the same VLAN during such a
   handoff) because all three ARs are link-layer reachable from a STA
   connected to any AP1-5.  Therefore, such handoffs would not require
   IP-layer mobility management, although some IP-layer signaling may be
   required to determine that connectivity to the existing AR is still



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   available.  However, a handover from AP5 to AP6 would require a
   change of AR, because AP6 cannot reach the VLAN on which Subnet 1 is
   implemented and therefore the STA would be attaching to a different
   subnet.  An IP-layer handover mechanism would need to be invoked in
   order to provide low-interruption handover between the two ARs.


                                Internet
                               /    |   \
                              /     |    \
                             /      |     \
                           AR      AR      AR
                           AP1     AP2     AP3

        Figure 2. An 802.11 deployment with integrated APs/ARs.


   Figure 2 depicts an alternative 802.11 deployment where each AP is
   integrated with exactly one AR on a disjoint VLAN.  In this case,
   every change of AP would result in a necessary change of AR, which
   would require some IP-layer handover mechanism to provide for low-
   interruption handover between the ARs.  Also, the AR shares a MAC-
   layer identifier with its attached AP.

   In the next section, we examine the steps involved in any 802.11
   handover. Subsequent sections discuss how these steps could be
   integrated with an IP-layer handover mechanism in each of the above
   deployment scenarios.


4. 802.11 Handovers in Detail

   An 802.11 handover takes place when a STA changes its association
   from one AP to another ("re-association").  This process consists of
   the following steps:

     0. The STA realizes that a handoff is necessary due to degrading
        radio transmission environment for the current AP.

     1. The STA performs a scan to see what APs are available.  The
        result of the scan is a list of APs together with physical
        layer information, such as signal strength.

     2. The STA chooses one of the APs and performs a join to
        synchronize its physical and MAC layer timing parameters with
        the selected AP.




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     3. The STA requests authentication with the new AP.  For an "Open
        System", such authentication is a single round-trip message
        exchange with null authentication.

     4. The STA requests association or re-association with the new AP.
        A re-association request contains the MAC-layer address of the
        old AP, while a plain association request does not.

     5. If operating in accordance with 802.11i [6] the STA and AP
        would execute 802.1X EAP-on-LAN procedures to authenticate the
        association (step 3 would have executed in "Open System" mode).

     6. The new AP sends a Layer 2 Update frame on the local LAN
        segment to update the learning tables of any connected Ethernet
        bridges.

   Although we preface step 1 with step 0 for illustration purposes,
   there is no standardized trigger for step 1.  It may be performed as
   a result of decaying radio conditions on the current AP or at other
   times as determined by local implementation decisions.  Some NICs may
   do scanning in the background, interleaving scans between data
   packets.  This decreases the time required to roam if the performance
   of the current AP proves unsatisfactory, but it imposes more of a
   burden on the AP, since typically the STA places it in power save
   mode prior to the scan, then once the scan is complete, returns to
   the AP channel in order to pick up enqueued packets.  This can result
   in buffer exhaustion on the AP, and attendant packet loss.

   During step 2, the STA performs rate adjustment where it chooses the
   best available transmission rate.  Rate adjustment can be quite time
   consuming as well as unpredictable.

   Note that in some existing 802.11 implementations, steps 1-4 are
   performed by firmware in rapid succession (note that even in these
   implementations step 3 is sometimes performed in a host driver,
   especially for newer implementations).  This might make it impossible
   for the host to take any actions (including sending or receiving IP
   packets) before the handover is complete.  In other 802.11
   implementations, it is possible to invoke the scan (step 1) and join
   (step 2) operations independently.  This would make it possible to,
   e.g., perform step 1 far in advance of the handover and perhaps in
   advance of any real-time traffic.  This could substantially reduce
   the handover latency, as one study has concluded that the 802.11
   beacon scanning function may take several hundred milliseconds to
   complete [8] during which time sending and receiving IP packets is
   not possible.  However, scanning too far in advance may make the
   information out-of-date by the time of handover, which would cause
   the subsequent join operation to fail if radio conditions have
   changed so much in the interim that the target AP is no longer


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   reachable.  So, a host may choose to do scanning based on, among
   other considerations, the age of the previously scanned information.
   In general, performing such subsequent scans is a policy issue that a
   given implementation of FMIPv6 over 802.11 must consider carefully.

   Even if steps 1 and 2 are performed in rapid succession, there is no
   guarantee that an AP found during step 1 will be available during
   step 2 because radio conditions can change dramatically from moment
   to moment.  The STA may then decide to associate with a completely
   different AP.  Often, this decision is implemented in firmware and
   the attached host would have no control over which AP is chosen.
   However, tools such as the host AP driver [10] offer full control
   over when and to which AP the host needs to associate.  Operation as
   an Independent BSS (IBSS) or "ad-hoc mode" [3] may also permit the
   necessary control, although in this latter case attachment to an
   infrastructure AP would be impossible.  Implementers can make use of
   such tools to obtain the best combination of flexibility and
   performance.

   The coverage area of a single AP is known as a Basic Service Set
   (BSS).  An Extended Service Set (ESS) is formed from a collection of
   APs that all broadcast the same ESSID.  Note that a STA would only
   send a re-association (which includes both the old and new AP
   addresses) if the ESSID of the old and new APs are the same.

   A change of BSS within an ESS may or may not require an IP-layer
   handover, depending on whether the APs can send packets to the same
   IP subnets.  If an IP-layer handover is required, then FMIPv6 can
   decrease the overall latency of the handover.  The main goal of this
   document is to describe the most reasonable scenarios for how the
   events of an 802.11 handover may interleave with the message
   exchanges in FMIPv6.


5. FMIPv6 Message Exchanges

   An FMIPv6 handover nominally consists of the following messages:

     a. The MN sends a Router Solicitation for Proxy (RtSolPr) to find
        out about neighboring ARs.

     b. The MN receives a Proxy Router Advertisement (PrRtAdv)
        containing one or more [AP-ID, AR-Info] tuples.

     c. The MN sends a Fast Binding Update (FBU) to the Previous Access
        Router (PAR).

     d. The PAR sends a Handover Initiate (HI) message to the New
        Access Router (NAR).


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     e. The NAR sends a Handover Acknowledge (HAck) message to the PAR.

     f. The PAR sends a Fast Binding Acknowledgement (FBack) message to
        the MS the new link.  The FBack is also optionally sent on the
        previous link if the FBU was sent from there.

     g. The MN sends Fast Neighbor Advertisement (FNA) to the NAR after
        attaching to it.

   The MN may connect to NAR prior to sending the FBU if the handover is
   un-anticipated.  In this case, the FNA (step g) would contain the FBU
   (listed as step c above) and then steps d, e, and f would take place
   from there.


6. Beacon Scanning and NAR Discovery

   The RtSolPr message is used to request information about the
   router(s) connected to one or more APs.  The APs are specified in the
   New Access Point Link-Layer Address option in the RtSolPr and
   associated IP-layer information is returned in the IP Address Option
   of the PrRtAdv [2].  In the case of an 802.11 link, the link layer
   address is the BSSID of some AP.

   Beacon scanning (step 1 from Section 4) produces a list of available
   APs along with signal strength information for each.  This list would
   supply the necessary addresses for the New Access Point Link-Layer
   Address option(s) in the RtSolPr messages.  To obtain this list the
   host needs to invoke the MLME-SCAN.request primitive (See Section
   10.3.2.1 of the 802.11 specification [3]).  The BSSIDs returned by
   this primitive are the link-layer addresses of the available APs.

   Because beacon scanning takes on the order of a few hundred
   milliseconds to complete, and because it is generally not possible to
   send and receive IP packets during this time, the MN needs to
   schedule these events with care so that they do not disrupt ongoing
   real-time services.  For example, the scan could be performed at the
   time the MN attaches to the network prior to any real-time traffic.
   However, if the interval between scanning and handover is too long,
   the neighbor list may be out of date.  For example, the signal
   strengths of neighboring APs may have dramatically changed, and a
   handover directed to the apparently best AP from the old list may
   fail.  If the handover is executed in firmware, the STA may even
   choose a new target AP that is entirely missing from the old list
   (after performing its own scan).  Both cases would limit the ability
   of the MN to choose the correct NAR for the FBU in step c during an
   anticipated handover.  Ongoing work in the IEEE 802.11k task group
   may address extensions that allow interleaving beacon scanning with


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   data transmission/reception along with buffering at APs to minimize
   packet loss.

   Note that, aside from physical layer parameters such as signal
   strength, it may be possible to obtain all necessary information
   about neighboring APs by using the wildcard form of the RtSolPr
   message.  This would cause the current access router to return a list
   of neighboring APs, and would not interrupt ongoing communication
   with the current AP.  This request could be made at the time the MN
   first attaches to the access router, and periodically thereafter.
   This would enable the MN to cache the necessary [AP-ID, AR-Info]
   tuples and might enable it to react more quickly when a handover
   becomes necessary due to a changing radio environment.  However,
   because the information does not include up-to-date signal strength,
   it would not enable the MN to predict accurately the next AP prior to
   a handover.  Also, if the scale of the network is such that a given
   access router is attached to many APs, then it is possible that there
   may not be room to list all APs in the PrRtAdv.

   The time taken to scan for beacons is significant because it involves
   iteration through all 802.11 channels and listening on each one for
   active beacons.  A more targeted approach would allow the STA to
   scan, e.g., only one or two channels of interest, which would provide
   for much shorter interruption of real-time traffic.  However, such
   optimizations are currently outside the scope of 802.11
   specifications.


7. Scenarios

   In this section we look at a few of the possible scenarios for using
   FMIPv6 in an 802.11 context.  Each scenario is labeled by the
   sequence of events that take place, where the numbered events are
   from Section 4 and the lettered events are from Section 5.  For
   example, "1abcde23456fg" represents step 1 from Section 4 followed
   by steps a-e from Section 5 followed by steps 2-6 from Section 4
   followed by steps f and g from Section 5.  This is the sequence
   where the MN performs a scan, then the MN executes the FMIPv6
   messaging to obtain NAR information and send a binding update, then
   the PAR initiates HI/HAck exchange, then the 802.11 handover
   completes, and finally the HAck is received at the PAR and the MN
   sends an FNA.

   Each scenario is followed by a brief description and discussion of
   the benefits and drawbacks.






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7.1 Scenario 1abcdef23456g

   This scenario is the predictive mode of operation from the FMIPv6
   specification.  In this scenario, the host executes the scan sometime
   prior to the handover, and is able to send the FBU prior to handover.
   Only the FNA is sent after the handover.  This mode of operation
   requires that the scan and join operations (steps 1 and 2) can be
   performed separately and under host control, so that steps a-f can be
   inserted between 1 and 2.  As mentioned previously, such control may
   be possible in some implementations [10] but not in others.

   Steps 1ab may be executed far in advance of the handover, which would
   remove them from the critical path.  This would minimize the service
   interruption from beacon scanning, and allow at least one
   RtSolPr/PrRtAdv exchange to complete so that the host has link layer
   information about some NARs.  Note that if steps ab were delayed
   until handover is imminent, there would be no guarantee that the
   RtSolPr/PrRtAdv exchange would complete especially in a radio
   environment where the connection to the old AP is deteriorating
   rapidly.  However, if there were a long interval between the scan and
   the handover, then the FBU (step c) would be created with out-of-date
   information.  There is no guarantee that the MN will actually attach
   to the desired new AP after it has sent the FBU to the oAR, because
   changing radio conditions may cause NAR to be suddenly unreachable.
   If this were the case, then the handover would need to devolve into
   one of the reactive cases given below.


7.2 Scenario ab123456cdefg

   This is the reactive mode of operation from the FMIPv6 specification.
   This scenario does not require host intervention between steps 1 and
   2.

   However, it does require that the MN obtain the link-layer address of
   NAR prior to handover, so that it has a link-layer destination
   address for outgoing packets (default router information).  This
   would then be used for sending the FNA (with encapsulated FBU) when
   it reaches the new subnet.


7.3 Scenario 123456abcdefg

   In this scenario the MN does not obtain any information about the NAR
   prior to executing the handover.  It is completely reactive, and
   consists of soliciting a router advertisement after handover, and
   then sending an FNA with encapsulated FBU immediately.




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   This scenario may be appropriate when it is difficult to learn the
   link-layer address of the NAR prior to handover.  This may be the
   case, e.g., if the scan primitive is not available to the host and
   the wildcard PrRtAdv form returns too many results.  It may be
   possible to skip the router advertisement/solicitation steps (ab) in
   some cases, if it is possible to learn the NAR's link-layer address
   through some other means.  In the deployment illustrated in Figure 2,
   this would be exactly the new AP's MAC layer address, which can be
   learned from the link-layer handover messages.  However, in the case
   of Figure 1, this information must be learned through router
   discovery of some form.  Also note that even in the case of Figure 2,
   the MN must somehow be made aware that it is in fact operating in a
   Figure 2 network and not a Figure 1 network.


8. Security Considerations

   The security considerations applicable to FMIPv6 are described in the
   base FMIPv6 specification [2].  In particular, the PAR must be
   assured of the authenticity of the FBU before it begins to redirect
   user traffic.  However, if the association with the new AP is not
   protected using mutual authentication, it may be possible for a rogue
   AP to fool the MN into sending an FBU to the PAR when it is not in
   its best interest to do so.

   Note that step 6 from Section 4 installs layer-2 forwarding state
   that can redirect user traffic and cause disruption of service if
   they can be triggered by malicious nodes.

   Note that step 3 from Section 4 could potentially provide some
   security; however, due to the identified weaknesses in WEP shared key
   security [9] this should not be relied upon.  Instead, the Robust
   Security Network [6] will require the STA to undergo 802.1X Port-
   Based Network Access Control [5] before proceeding to steps 5 or 6.
   802.1X defines a way to encapsulate EAP on 802 networks (EAPOL, for
   "EAP over LANs").  With this method, the client and AP participate in
   an EAP exchange which itself can encapsulate any of the various EAP
   authentication methods.  The EAPOL exchange can output a Master
   Session Key (MSK) and Extended Master Session Key (EMSK), which can
   then be used to derive transient keys, which in turn can be used to
   encrypt/authenticate subsequent traffic.  It is possible to use
   802.1X pre-authentication [6] between a STA and a target AP while the
   STA is associated with another AP; this would enable authentication
   to be done in advance of handover, which would allow faster
   resumption of service after roaming.  However, because EAPOL frames
   carry only MAC-layer instead of IP-layer addresses, this is currently
   only specified to work within a single VLAN, where IP layer handover
   mechanisms are not necessarily needed anyway.  In the most
   interesting case for FMIPv6 (roaming across subnet boundaries) the


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   802.1X exchange would need to be performed after handover to the new
   AP.  This would introduce additional handover delay while the 802.1X
   exchange takes place, which may also involve round-trips to RADIUS or
   Diameter servers.  The EAP exchange could be avoided if a pre-
   existing Pairwise Master Key (PMK) is found between the STA and the
   AP, which may be the case if the STA has previously visited that AP
   or one that shares a common back-end infrastructure.

   Perhaps faster cross-subnet authentication could be achieved with the
   use of pre-authentication using an IP-layer mechanism that could
   cross subnet boundaries.  To our knowledge this sort of work is not
   currently underway in the IEEE.  The security considerations of these
   new approaches would need to be carefully studied.


9. Conclusions

   The Mobile IPv6 Fast Handover specification presents a protocol for
   shortening the period of service interruption during a change in
   link-layer point of attachment.  This document attempts to show how
   this protocol may be applied in the context of 802.11 access
   networks.

   Implementation of FMIPv6 must be done in the context of a particular
   link layer implementation, which must provide the triggers for the
   FMIPv6 message flows.  For example, the host must be notified of such
   events as degradation of signal strength or attachment to a new AP.

   The particular implementation of the 802.11 hardware and firmware may
   dictate how FMIPv6 is able to operate.  For example, to execute a
   predictive handover, the scan request primitive must be available to
   the host and the firmware must execute join operations only under
   host control [10], not autonomously in response to its own handover
   criteria.  Obtaining the desired PrRtAdv and sending an FBU
   immediately prior to handover requires that messages be exchanged
   over the wireless link during a period when connectivity is
   degrading.  In some cases the scenario given in Section 7.1 may not
   complete successfully or the FBU may redirect traffic to the wrong
   NAR.  However, in these cases the handover may devolve to the
   scenario from Section 7.2 or the scenario from Section 7.3.
   Ultimately, falling back to basic Mobile IPv6 operation [7] and
   sending a Binding Update directly to the Home Agent can be used to
   recover from any failure of the FMIPv6 protocol.








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10. References


10.1 Normative References

   [1]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
        Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [2]  Koodli, R. (editor), "Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6", draft-
        ietf-mipshop-fast-mipv6-02.txt, July 2004.  Work In Progress.

   [3]  "Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
        (PHY) Specifications", ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11, 1999 Edition.

   [4]  Bahl, P., Bahl, P., and Chandra, R., "MultiNet: Enabling
        Simultaneous Connections to Multiple Wireless Networks Using a
        Single Radio", Microsoft Tech Report, MSR-TR-2003-46, June
        2003.

   [5]  "Port-Based Network Access Control", IEEE Std 802.1X-2004, July
        2004.

   [6]  "Medium Access Control (MAC) Security Enhancements", IEEE Std
        802.11i-2004, July 2004.

   [7]  Johnson, D., Perkins, C., and Arkko, J., "Mobility Support in
        IPv6", RFC 3775, June 2004.


10.2 Informative References

   [8]  Mitra, A., Shin, M., and Arbaugh, W., "An Empirical Analysis of
        the IEEE 802.11 MAC Layer Handoff Process", CS-TR-4395,
        University of Maryland Department of Computer Science,
        September 2002.

   [9]  Borisov, N., Goldberg, I., and Wagner, D., "Intercepting Mobile
        Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11", Proceedings of the
        Seventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and
        Networking, July 2001, pp. 180-188.

   [10] Malinen, J., "Host AP driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 and WPA
        Supplicant", http://hostap.epitest.fi/, July 2004.




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11. Acknowledgments

   Thanks to Bob O'Hara for providing explanation and insight on the
   802.11 standards.  Thanks to James Kempf, Erik Anderlind, Rajeev
   Koodli, and Bernard Aboba for providing comments on earlier drafts.


12. Author's Address

   Pete McCann
   Lucent Technologies
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