A Survey of IPv6-Based Mobility Support for P2P-SIP Networks

Abstract

For many years, communications with mobile objects (smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc.) occupy most of the exchanges through internet, raising nowadays a real passion to mobile Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol (P2P-SIP) networks through which are these communications. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), with its many advantages over IPv4, including the multitude of addresses and automatic management of handover, arouses today great interest. However, most studies have focused separately, on one hand, in mobility in a peer-to-peer SIP environment, and on other hand in IPv6 mobility management (not both at once). In this paper, after a broad overview of peer-to-peer SIP networks and existing IPv6 mobility management solutions, we show the best combination to set up for an optimized solution for mobility management in IPv6 within a P2P-SIP environment.