1st International ICST Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access

Research Article

An application of the Context Transfer Protocol: IPsec in a IPv6 mobility environment

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ACCESSNETS.2007.4447133,
        author={Fabien ALLARD and Jean-Marie BONNIN},
        title={An application of the Context Transfer Protocol: IPsec in a IPv6 mobility environment},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BWIA},
        year={2008},
        month={2},
        keywords={CXTP  Context transfer  IPsec  network mobility  network security},
        doi={10.1109/ACCESSNETS.2007.4447133}
    }
    
  • Fabien ALLARD
    Jean-Marie BONNIN
    Year: 2008
    An application of the Context Transfer Protocol: IPsec in a IPv6 mobility environment
    BWIA
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ACCESSNETS.2007.4447133
Fabien ALLARD1,*, Jean-Marie BONNIN2,*
  • 1: France T´el´ecom R&D 38-40 rue du G´en´eral Leclerc F-92794 Issy-Les-Moulineaux
  • 2: GET/ENST Bretagne CS17607 F-35576 Cesson Sévigné
*Contact email: fabien.allard@orange-ftgroup.com, jm.bonnin@enst-bretagne.fr

Abstract

The use of the Internet must be able to be in confidence for users but security provisioning has a cost for ISPs1. In a mobility context this security must be set up from scratch after each handover and for each customer. Therefore, a mechanism has been designed in the standardization bodies: the Context Transfer. This mechanism aims to transfer suitable information between equipments in order to reduce handover time. The benefit for an operator would then be a same security level during and after handover in mobile networks but with a cost as lower as possible. The purpose of this paper is to set out an application of the Context Transfer Protocol to IPsec2 in a IPv6 mobile environment. After a state of the art of context transfer for security, the paper quickly presents CXTP3 defined at the IETF4. Then, it defines the IPsec context and finally, it describes a CXTP based solution to transfer this context between two access routers in a IPv6 mobility environment.