Fast Duplicate Address Detection for Seamless Inter-Domain Handoff in All-IPv6 Mobile Networks

Abstract

In All-IP networks, each computer or communication equipment needs an IP address. To supply enough IP addresses, the new Internet protocol IPv6 will be used in next generation mobile communication. Although IPv6 improves the existing Internet protocol (IPv4), Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) mechanism may consume resources and suffer from long delay. DAD is used to make sure whether the IP address is unique or not. When a mobile node performs an inter-domain handoff, it will first generate a new IP and perform a DAD procedure. The DAD procedure not only wastes time but also increases the signaling load on Internet. In this paper, we propose a new DAD mechanism to speed up the DAD procedure. We create a DAD table in access or mobility routers in All-IP networks and record all IP addresses of the area. When a new IP address needs to perform DAD, it can just search in the DAD table to confirm the uniqueness of the address. Furthermore, we propose a new method, Fast Duplicate Address Detection (Fast DAD), to reduce data search time. Simulation results show that our method outperforms the existing DAD methods.