Thesis
Enhancing return routability in Mobile IP Version 6
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
2003
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/139
Abstract
The Mobile IP Version 6 return routability procedure attempts to provide a system of weak authentication to mobile nodes and their correspondents. It does this by requiring unencrypted authentication information to be sent along two separate paths between each mobile node and each of its corresponding nodes. Without authentication, attackers can disrupt or even halt communications between a mobile node and a corresponding node. Authentication is necessary to provide a secure Internet with mobility support. While return routability offers some form of authentication security, it is not secure enough to provide adequate protection for Mobile IP Version 6. Attackers can easily intercept return routability’s unencrypted authentication packets leading to a complete compromise of the authentication procedure. If the authentication procedure fails, then the Mobile IP Version 6 Internet will not function properly. This thesis proposes a number of enhancements that can be made to make return routability including stochastic route selection, security level selection, and intrusion detection. These enhancements increase the effectiveness of return routability to provide a secure means of authentication without adding significantly to return routability’s complexity and overhead. With these additions, Mobile IP Version 6 will have a secure framework to bring mobile support to the Internet.
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Details
- Title
- Enhancing return routability in Mobile IP Version 6
- Creators
- Matthew Emery Neal Whitehead
- Contributors
- Sirisha Medidi (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900524803801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis