Mobility management based on Mobile IPv4/v6 translation gateway in mixed IPv4/v6 networks

IETF has specified Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6 in RFC3344 and RFC3775 respectively, but not yet discussed Mobile IPv4/v6 in any published RFC. This paper proposes a scheme to solve one of Mobile IPv4/v6 problems which Home Agent (HA) locates in IPv6 network and Correspondent Node(CN) locates in IPv4 network, while Mobile Node (MN) moves within IPv6 network. In the solution, a gateway called Mobile IPv4/v6 translation gateway (MIPv4/v6-TG) is introduced to bridge between IPv4 network and IPv6 network, which is made up of a traditional NAT-PT gateway and a Mobile IP application level gateway (MIP-ALG) built upon the NAT-PT gateway. MIP-ALG maintains a MIP table, a data structure, which is formed by entries. We use the MIP table to realize the communication between the IPv4 entities and the IPv6 entities. The creation, usage and update processes of MIP table are described in this paper. Through the experiment we find it can realize the basic communication in IPv4/v6 mixed network. The measurement of performance test proves the solution's efficiency. And it can work compatibly with RFC3344 and RFC3775.