IETF NEMO Working Group Thierry Ernst, WIDE and INRIA
Internet-Draft Hong-Yon Lach, Motorola Labs Paris
May 2003
Network Mobility Support Terminology
draft-ietf-nemo-terminology-00.txt
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Abstract
This document defines a terminology for discussing network mobility
problems and solution requirements. Network mobility arises when a
router connecting an entire network to the Internet dynamically
changes its point of attachment to the Internet therefrom causing the
reachability of the entire network to be changed in the topology.
Such kind of network is referred to as a mobile network. Without
appropriate mechanisms, sessions established between nodes in the
mobile network and the global Internet cannot be maintained while the
mobile router changes its point of attachment.
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Table of Contents
Status of This Memo
Abstract
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
2. Architecture Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05
3. Functional Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07
Local Fixed Node (LFN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07
Local Mobile Node (LMN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07
Visiting Mobile Node (VMN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07
NEMO-enabled (NEMO-node) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07
MIPv6-enabled (MIPv6-node) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07
4. Nested Mobility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09
Nested Mobile Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09
root-NEMO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
parent-NEMO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
sub-NEMO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
root-MR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
parent-MR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
sub-MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5. Multihoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Multihomed Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-addressed host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-interfaced host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
mutli-linked host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-sited host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Multihomed Mobile Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-egress-addressed MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-egress-interfaced MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
mutli-egress-linked MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-egress-sited MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Multihomed Mobile Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
multi-MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Multihomed Nested Mobile Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
multi-root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Multihoming Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Miscellaneous Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Host Mobility Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Network Mobility Support (NEMO Support). . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
NEMO Basic Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
NEMO Extended Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Node behind the MR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Correspondent Node (CN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MNP . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Idle MNN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Idle Mobile Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Changes Since Previous Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
A. Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
C. Contact Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
D. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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1. Introduction
Network mobility support is concerned with managing the mobility of
an entire network which changes its point of attachment to the
Internet and thus its reachability in the Internet topology. If
network mobility is not explicitly supported by some mechanisms,
existing sessions break and connectivity to the global Internet is
lost.
This document defines the specific terminology needed to describe the
problem space we face with network mobility and to edict the
solutions and the requirements they must comply with. This
terminology complies with the usual IPv6 terminology [RFC2460] and
the generic mobility-related terms already defined in [Mobility] and
in the Mobile IPv6 [MIPv6] specifications. Some terms introduced in
the present version of the draft may only be useful for the purpose
of defining the problem scope and functional requirements of network
mobility support and shall be removed or refined once we agree on the
requirements.
The first section introduces terms to define the architecture
components; the second introduces terms to discuss the requirements,
the third, terms to discuss nested mobility; the forth defines
multihoming, and the last, miscellaneous terms which do not fit in
either sections. The overall terminology is summarized in fig.1 to 5.
Fig.1 shows a single mobile subnetwork. Fig.2. shows a larger mobile
network comprising several subnetworks, attached on a foreign link.
Fig.3 illustrates a node changing its point of attachment within the
mobile network. Fig.4 and 5 illustrate nested mobility whereas Fig.6
to Fig.8 illustrate multihoming.
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2. Architecture Components
Fig.1 and 2 illustrate the architecture components involved in
network mobility. The terms "Fixed Node (FN)", "Mobile Node (MN)",
"Mobile Network", "Mobile Router (MR)", "Mobile Network Node (MNN)",
"home link", "foreign link", "ingress interface", "egress interface",
access router (AR), home link, foreign link are defined in
[Mobility].
A mobile network is composed by one or more IP-subnet and is viewed
as a single unit. It is connected to the Internet by means of mobile
routers (MRs). Nodes behind the MR primarily comprise fixed nodes
(nodes unable to change their point of attachment while maintaining
ongoing sessions), and additionally mobile nodes (nodes able to
change their point of attachment while maintaining ongoing sessions).
In most cases, the internal structure of the mobile network will in
effect be relatively stable (no dynamic change of the topology), but
this is not a general assumption.
____
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| CN |
|____|
___|____________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|_ __|_
| | Access | |
| AR | Router | AR |
|____| |____|
______|__ foreign __|_____________ home
link __|_ link
| |
| MR | Mobile Router
|____|
_________|_______ internal
__|__ __|__ link
| | | |
| MNN | | MNN | Mobile Network Nodes
|_____| |_____|
Fig.1: Architecture Components
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At the network layer, MRs get access to the global Internet from
the Access Routers (ARs) on the visited link. The MR maintains the
Internet connectivity for the entire mobile network. It has one or
more egress interface(s) and one or more ingress interface(s).
When forwarding a packet to the Internet the packet is transmitted
upstream through one of the MR's egress interfaces to the AR; when
forwarding a packet from the AR down to the mobile network, the
packet is transmitted downstream through one of the MR's ingress
interfaces.
________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|_
Access | |
Router | AR |
|____|
foreign _____|_____________
link |
| 'e'
__|__
| 'i'| |
|____| MR | Mobile Router
| |_____|
| |'i'
| |
| ____|________________ internal
| __|__ __|__ link 1
_____ | | | | |
| |__| | MNN | | MNN |
| MNN | | |_____| |_____|
|_____| |
| internal 'i': MR ingress interface
link 2 'e': MR egress interface
Fig.2: Larger Mobile Network with 2 subnets
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3. Functional Terms
Within the term Mobile Network Node (MNN), we can distinguish between
LFN, VMN and LMN. The distinction is a property of how different
types of nodes can move in the topology and is necessary to discuss
issues related to mobility management and access control, but does
not preclude that mobility should be handled differently. Nodes are
classified according to their function and capabilities with the
rationale that nodes with different properties (may) have different
requirements.
Local Fixed Node (LFN)
A fixed node (FN), either a host or a router, that belongs to the
mobile network and which doesn't move topologically with respect
to the MR.
Local Mobile Node (LMN)
A mobile node (MN), either a host or a router who can move
topologically with respect to the MR and whose home link belongs
to the mobile network.
Visiting Mobile Node (VMN)
A mobile node (MN), either a host or a router who can move
topologically with respect to the MR and whose home link doesn't
belong to the mobile network. A VMN that gets attached to a
foreign link within the mobile network obtains an address on that
link.
NEMO-enabled (NEMO-node)
A node that has been extended with network mobility support
capabilities and that may take special actions based on that
(details of the capabilities are not known yet, but it may be
implementing some sort of Route Optimization).
MIPv6-enabled (MIPv6-node)
A node which has been extended with host mobility support
capabilities as defined in [MIPv6] and that may take special
actions based on that
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________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|_ __|_
| | Access | |
| AR | Router | AR |
|____| |____|
__|_ _____|_____________ foreign
| | _|__ link
| MN | | | |
|____| _____ |__| MR | Mobile Router
| |__| |____|
|--> | LMN | | __|_____________ internal
| |_____| | __|__ | link 1
| _____ | | |
| | |__| | LFN |
| | LFN | | |_____| |
| |_____| | |
| | internal |
| link 2 |
|------------------------------|
Fig.3: LFN and LMN: LMN changing subnet
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4. Nested Mobility
Nested mobility occurs when there are more than one level of
mobility. A MNN acts as an Access Router (AR) and allows visiting
nodes to get attached to it. There are two cases of nested mobility:
- when the attaching node is a single node: VMN (see figure 4).
For instance, when a passenger carrying a mobile phone gets
Internet access from the public access network deployed into a
bus.
- when the attaching node is a router with nodes behind it, i.e. a
mobile network (see figure 5). For instance, when a passenger
carrying a PAN gets Internet access from the public access network
deployed in the bus.
For the second case, we introduce the following terms:
Nested Mobile Network
A mobile network is said to be nested when a mobile network is
getting attached to a larger mobile network. The aggregated
hierarchy of mobile networks becomes a single nested mobile
network.
________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|_ __|_
| | Access | |
| AR | Router | AR |
|____| |____|
_____|_____________ home
| _|__ link
| | | |
| _____ |__| MR | Mobile Router
| | |__| |____|
----------> | VMN | | __|_____________ internal
|_____| | __|__ __|__ link 1
_____ | | | | |
| |__| | LFN | | LMN |
| LFN | | |_____| |_____|
|_____| |
| internal link 2
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Fig.4: Nested Mobility: single VMN attached to a mobile network
root-NEMO
The mobile network at the top of the hierarchy connecting the
aggregated nested mobile network to the Internet.
parent-NEMO
The upstream mobile network providing Internet access to a mobile
network down the hierarchy.
sub-NEMO
The downstream mobile network attached to a mobile network up the
hierarchy. It becomes a subservient of the parent-NEMO. The sub-
NEMO is getting Internet access through the parent-NEMO and does
not provide Internet access to the parent-NEMO.
________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|__ __|__
| | | |
| AR1 | | AR2 |
|_____| |_____|
_____|_____________ foreign
__|__ link
| |
| _____ |__| MR1 | root-MR
|__| |__| |_____|
| | MR2 | | __|_____________ internal
| |_____| | __|__ __|__ link 1
_____ | | | | | |
| | | sub-MR | | LFN | | LMN |
| LFN |__| | |_____| |_____|
|_____| | |
| | internal
link 2
<-------------------> <--------------------------->
sub-NEMO root-NEMO
Fig.5: Nested Mobility: sub-NEMO attached to a larger mobile network
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root-MR
The MR(s) of the root-NEMO used to connect the nested mobile
network to the fixed Internet.
parent-MR
The MR(s) of the parent-NEMO.
sub-MR
The MR(s) of the sub-NEMO connected to a parent-NEMO
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5. Multihoming
Multihoming, as currently defined by the IETF, covers site-
multihoming [MULTI6] and host multihoming.
Multihomed Host
Within host-multihoming, a host may either be:
- multi-addressed: multiple source addresses to choose between
on a given interface; all IPv6 nodes are multi-addressed due to
the presence of link-local addresses on all interfaces.
- multi-interfaced: multiple interfaces to choose between, on
the same link or not.
- multi-linked: multiple links to choose between (just like
multi-interfaced but all interfaces are NOT connected to the
same link)
- multi-sited: when using IPv6 site-local address and attached
to different sites
Multihomed Mobile Router
A MR is multihomed when it has simultaneously more than one active
connection to the Internet, that is when it is either:
- multi-egress-addressed MR: the MR has simultaneously multiple
active addresses to choose between on a given egress interface
- multi-egress-interfaced MR: the MR has simultaneously
multiple active egress intefaces on the same link or not
- multi-egress-linked MR: the MR has simultaneously multiple
active egress interfaces on distinct links
- multi-egress-sited MR: the MR is simultaneously attached to
different sites (possible distinct ISPs).
Multihomed Mobile Network
A mobile network is multihomed when there more than one active
interface connected to the global Internet, that is when either:
- a MR is multihomed, or
- mutlti-MR: the mobile network has more than one MR to choose
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between
________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|__ __|__
| | | |
| AR1 | | AR2 |
|_____| |_____|
foreign ______|_____ _____|______ foreign
link 1 | ____ | link 2
| | | |
|___| MR |___|
|____|
______|_____ internal
__|__ link 1
| |
| LFN |
|_____|
Fig.6: Multihomed Mobile Network: multi-interfaced MR
________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|________________________|
__|__ __|__
| | | |
| AR1 | | AR2 |
|_____| |_____|
foreign ______|_____ _____|______ foreign
link 1 __|__ __|__ link 2
| | | |
| MR1 | | MR2 |
|_____| |_____|
_____|__________|_____ internal
__|__ link 1
| |
| LFN |
|_____|
Fig.7: Multihomed Mobile Network: multi-MR
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Multihomed Nested Mobile Network
A nested mobile network is multihomed when there more than one
active interface connected to the global Internet, that is when
either:
- a root-MR is multihomed, or
- multi-root: there are more than one root-MR to choose between
Illustration
Fig.6 and 7 show two examples of multihomed mobile networks.
Fig.8. shows two independent mobile networks. mobile_network_1 is
single-homed to the Internet through MR1. mobile_network_2 is
multihomed to the Internet through MR2a and MR2b.
Let's consider the two following nested scenarios:
Scenario 1: what happens when MR2a attaches to AR1 ?
- mobile_network_2 becomes a subservient of mobile_network_1
- mobile_network_1 is the parent-NEMO (and also the root-
NEMO)
- mobile_network_2 is the sub-NEMO
- MR1 is the root-MR for the aggregated nested mobile
network
- MR2a is a sub-MR in the aggregated nested mobile network
- mobile_network_2 is still multihomed to the Internet, but
to AR1 and ARz
- the aggregated nested mobile network is not multihomed
Scenario 2: what happens when MR1 attaches to AR2 ?
- mobile_network_1 becomes a subservient of mobile_network_2
- mobile_network_1 is the sub-NEMO
- mobile_network_2 is the parent_NEMO (and also the root-
NEMO)
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- MR2a and MR2b are both root_MRs for the aggregated nested
mobile network
- MR1 is a sub-MR in the aggregated nested mobile network
- mobile_network_1 is not multihomed
- the aggregated nested mobile network is multihomed
_____________________________
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| |
| Internet |
| |
|_____________________________|
__|__ __|__ __|__
| | | | | |
| ARx | | ARy | | ARz |
|_____| |_____| |_____|
______|__ ____|____ ___|____
__|__ __|___ __|___
| | | | | |
| MR1 | | MR2a | | MR2b |
|_____| |______| |______|
mobile _____|____ ___|__________|___ mobile
network1 __|__ __|__ network2
| | | |
| LFN | AR1 | LFN | AR2
|_____| |_____|
Fig.8: Multihomed Nested Mobile Network
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6. Miscellaneous Terms
Host mobility support
Host Mobility Support is a mechanmism which maintains session
continuity between mobile nodes and their correspondents upon the
mobile host's change of point of attachment. It could be achieved
by Mobile IPv6.
Network Mobility support (NEMO Support)
Network Mobility Support is a mechanism which maintains session
continuity between mobile network nodes and their correspondent
upon a mobile router's change of point of attachment. Solutions
for this problem are classified into NEMO Basic Support, and NEMO
Extended Support.
NEMO Basic Support
NEMO Basic support is to preserve session continuity by means of
bidirectional tunneling much like what is done using [MIPv6] for
mobile nodes.
NEMO Extended Support
NEMO Extended support is to provide the necessary optimization,
including routing optimization between arbitrary MNNs and CNs.
Node behind the MR
Any MNN in a mobile network, beside the MRs connecting the mobile
network to the Internet.
Correspondent Node (CN)
Any node that is communicating with one or more MNNs. A CN could
either be located in the fixed network or within the mobile
network, and could be either fixed or mobile.
MNP
An acronym for Mobile Network Prefix (defined in [Mobility])
Idle MNN
A MNN that does not engage in any communication.
Idle Mobile Network
A mobile network that does not engage in any communication outside
the network may be considered idle from the global Internet. This
doesn't preclude that MNNs are themselves idle. Internal traffic
between any two MNNs located in the same mobile network is not
concerned by this statement.
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7. Changes since draft-ernst-nemo-terminology-01.txt
- removed terms "inter-domain mobility" and "intra-domain mobility".
Those are replaced with terms "Global mobility" and "Local mobility"
from [Mobility]
- removed terms "access router", "mobile network prefix", "home
subnet prefix", "foreign subnet prefix", "fixed node", "mobile node",
"mobile network", "mobile network node". "ingress interface", "egress
interface" to avoid redundancy with [Mobility] where those terms are
defined.
- MIPv6-enabled not anymore restricted to the MN Operation
- removed section "applications" to avoid redundancy with
[Requirements]
- more text for multi-homing
A. Acknowledgments
The material presented in this document takes most of the text from
our former internet-drafts submitted to MobileIP WG and to the former
MONET BOF. Authors would therefore like to thank both Motorola Labs
Paris and INRIA (PLANETE team, Grenoble, France), for the opportunity
to bring this terminology to the IETF, and particularly Claude
Castelluccia (INRIA) for his advices, suggestions, and direction,
Alexandru Petrescu (Motorola) and Christophe Janneteau (Motorola). We
also acknowledge the input from Hesham Soliman (Ericsson), Mattias
Petterson (Ericsson), and numerous other people on the NEMO mailing
list.
B. References
[Requirements] Thierry Ernst
"Network Mobility Support Requirements"
draft-ietf-nemo-requirements.txt
Work in progress.
[MIPv6] David B. Johnson and C. Perkins.
"Mobility Support in IPv6".
Internet Draft draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6.txt,
Work in progress.
[Mobility] J. Manner and M. Kojo
"Mobility Related Terminology
draft-ietf-seamoby-mobility-terminology.txt
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Work in progress
[MULTI6] B. Black, V. Gill and J. Abley
"Requirements for IPv6 Site-Multihoming Architectures"
draft-ietf-multi6-multihoming-requirements.txt
Work in progress
[IPv6-NODE] John Loughney
"IPv6 Node Requirements"
draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements.txt
Work in progress.
[Perkins] C. E. Perkins.
"Mobile IP, Design Principles and Practices."
Wireless Communications Series.
Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN 0-201-63469-4.
[RFC1726] C. Partridge
"Technical Criteria for Choosing IP the Next
Generation",
IETF RFC 1726 section 5.15, December 1994.
[RFC2460] S. Deering and R. Hinden.
"Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification".
IETF RFC 2460, December 1998.
[RFC2002] C. Perkins (Editor).
"IP Mobility Support".
IETF RFC 2002,October 1996.
C. Contact Address
Questions about this document can be directed to the authors:
Thierry Ernst,
Keio University.
5322 Endo, Fujisawa-shi,
Kanagawa 252-8520, Japan.
Phone : +81-466-49-1100
Fax : +81-466-49-1395
Email : ernst@sfc.wide.ad.jp
Hong-Yon Lach
Motorola Labs Paris, Lab Manager,
Networking and Applications Lab (NAL)
Espace Technologique - Saint Aubin
91193 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Phone: +33-169-35-25-36
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Email: Hong-Yon.Lach@crm.mot.com
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