A Novel Interfacing Solution to Make IKEv2 Work in MIPv6 Environment

Abstract

In IETF, mobile IPv6 signaling and data must be protected by IP security association, while IKEv2 is recommended to make dynamical IPSec security association maintenance. But when mobile node bootstrapped in foreign net work or handover to a new network, IKEv2 cannot get information about MIPv6 to negotiate right IP security associations, which will incur bootstrap failure and long handover delay. In this paper, a novel solution is proposed to interface IKEv2 and MIPv6 for information sharing and mobility detection. In according with our evaluation result, this solution could solve bootstrap problem and reduce the handover delay greatly.