Deploying NEMO: a Practical Approach

While moving across several networks, mobile nodes have to support mobility management protocol in order to be able to continue their ongoing communications. The common solutions to enable user movements over IPv6 networks are the mobile IPv6 and the NEMO basic support protocols. Although the mobile IPv6 protocol is quite efficient, it requires that every hosts aiming to move have to support it. By contrast, the NEMO basic support protocol is designed to enable movement of an entire network. By this means, every movements are handled by routers of the network and are completely hidden to the nodes (fixed or not) behind the NEMO router. Recently, an implementation of the NEMO basic support protocol for GNU/Linux operating system has been made available to public. In this article, we present a complete NEMO testbed based on this implementation and the demonstration scenario related to. This testbed has been deployed in the Louis Pasteur University campus, which is located in Strasbourg France. Monitoring and VoIP softwares have also been developed to provide useful tools for NEMO environment. The mobility model targeted by this testbed is users moving inside a car or bus