Host Identity Protocol extension supporting localized mobility management

Host Identity Protocol (HIP) has security support to enable secured mobility and multihoming, both of which are essential for future Internet applications. Yet micro-mobility has not been efficiently and securely addressed by HIP and other mechanisms based on it. This paper introduces a method based on HIP to support micro-mobility in an efficient and secure manner. We present the architectural elements of the framework and show through discussion and simulation results that our scheme can achieve negligible handover latency and few packet loss.