Multihoming in the ATN/IPS

Activities have been initiated in ICAO and AEEC to further develop the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network/Internet Protocol Suite (ATN/IPS) rather than the ATN/Open System Interconnection (ATN/OSI) protocols for use by safety and regularity of flight applications. Aside from the basic approach to mobility within a given Air/Ground Access Network an approach to multi-link operation over multiple Air/Ground Access Networks is needed. A description of local mobility management using PMIPv6 for the VHF Digital Link Mode 2 (VDL-2) terrestrial access network was provided in [1]. This paper proposes the use of MIPv6 as the global mobility management protocol which provides the desired multi-link capability.