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EXPERIMENTAL

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RFC 5568

Authors:

T. Schmidt, Ed.
M. Waehlisch
R. Koodli
G. Fairhurst
D. Liu

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IETF

Source:

multimob (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7411

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Abstract

Fast handover protocols for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6(PMIPv6) define mobility management procedures that support unicastcommunication at reduced handover latency. Fast handover baseoperations do not affect multicast communication and, hence, do notaccelerate handover management for native multicast listeners. Manymulticast applications like IPTV or conferencing, though, comprisedelay-sensitive, real-time traffic and will benefit from fasthandover completion. This document specifies extension of the MobileIPv6 Fast Handovers (FMIPv6) and the Fast Handovers for Proxy MobileIPv6 (PFMIPv6) protocols to include multicast traffic management infast handover operations. This multicast support is provided firstat the control plane by management of rapid context transfer betweenaccess routers and second at the data plane by optional fast trafficforwarding that may include buffering. An FMIPv6 access routerindicates support for multicast using an updated Proxy RouterAdvertisements message format.

This document updates RFC 5568, "Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers".

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.