WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE IP
INTRODUCTION
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Care-of Address
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Home Network
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Home Agent
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Foreign Agent
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Detailed explanation-1: -The COA defines the current location of the MN from an IP point of view. All IP packets sent to the MN are delivered to the COA, not directly to the IP address of the MN.
Detailed explanation-2: -A care-of address (usually referred to as CoA) is a temporary IP address for a mobile device used in Internet routing. This allows a home agent to forward messages to the mobile device.
Detailed explanation-3: -An IP address, or Internet Protocol address, is a series of numbers that identifies any device on a network. Computers use IP addresses to communicate with each other both over the internet as well as on other networks.
Detailed explanation-4: -The care-of address is usually the IP address of the foreign agent that sends the advertisements. The foreign agent is the endpoint of the tunnel. When the foreign agent receives datagrams through a tunnel, the foreign agent de-encapsulates the datagrams.