Security Improvement for Mobile Ip Communication
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2007-08
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Route optimization is an enhancement to mobile IP which improves routes for the
communication of mobile node with its correspondent nodes. Despite its improvement for the
performance of this communication, it brought additional security requirements for the Mobile IP
communications since it needs securing the new binding update messages. If the binding update
toward the home or correspondent nodes is attacked, future communication between the mobile
node and the node to which the binding update was intended to reach will be highly in threat. For
this reason the IETF designed solution to secure binding update toward the home agent and the
correspondent nodes. The binding update toward the home agent uses the security architecture for
Internet protocol and no attacks or flaws have been observed. However the binding update toward
correspondent nodes is secured with return routable protocol and there are some flaws that are
seen on it which can be analyzed from the design. This thesis presents such flaws on the protocol
and describes a solution designed to avoid these security problems. In the solution the return
routable protocol is modified to decrease the number of message transfers to send binding update
and integrated to work with IPSec for securing it. The design is implemented for simulation using
ns-2.29 with C++ and tested for its security and performance. Analysis made from the test results
showed that security requirements of binding update to the correspondent nodes in Mobile IP
communication system are satisfied as the correspondent node is able to identify false binding
updates. In addition the system’s performance is equivalent to the performance of base Mobile
IP; the average packet processing time obtained from simulation is 0.75 sec and the average
network delay is 12ms.
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