Mobility - Some Common Concepts

• Home agents

  • stationary systems that “own” mobile user’s address and accept traffic on behalf of mobile user
  • analogous to cellular HLRs

• Foreign agents

  • provide service to mobile user
  • analogous to cellular VLRs

• Registration

  • mobile users communicate back through serving system to home agents to indicate current location

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