Location Privacy in Mobile IPv6

Risto Mononen, Sandro Grech

2004

Abstract

The Mobile IPv6 protocol includes a route optimization mechanism that improves routing efficiency by informing correspondent nodes about the current care-of address of the mobile node. Mobile node physical location may be associated with its topologically correct IP address. Revealing the mobile node’s care-of address can therefore be used to track the mobile with certain accuracy, which compromises the location privacy of the mobile node. We propose correspondent node authentication based on user-friendly identities towards the mobile node to facilitate the decision about whether or not a route optimization procedure should be initiated towards a given correspondent node.

References

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in Harvard Style

Mononen R. and Grech S. (2004). Location Privacy in Mobile IPv6 . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-02-3, pages 34-41. DOI: 10.5220/0002664700340041


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wis04,
author={Risto Mononen and Sandro Grech},
title={Location Privacy in Mobile IPv6},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={34-41},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002664700340041},
isbn={972-8865-02-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Location Privacy in Mobile IPv6
SN - 972-8865-02-3
AU - Mononen R.
AU - Grech S.
PY - 2004
SP - 34
EP - 41
DO - 10.5220/0002664700340041