- Basics of Mobile Communications
- Mobility overview
- Operation of a 2G network
- Operation of a 2.5G network
- Operation of a 3G network
- Routing areas
- Measuring throughput
- Contention and contention mitigation
- Impacts on the mobility environment to quality of experience/quality of service
- Basic Principles of Mobile IP
- Role of the SGSN/GGSN
- Role of the PDSN
- Role of the home agent (HA), the foreign agent (FA), the AAA and security
- Home link, foreign link
- Care of address
- Corresponding agent
- Routing area updates
- Mobility call flows
- IP address bindings
- Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (Mobile IPv6)
- Overview of IPv6
- IPv6 address space
- IPv6 headers and extension headers
- Security issues
- IPv6 subnetting
- Network discovery process
- Mobility header
- Bidirectional tunneling
- Mobility in IPv6
- MIPv6 Route optimization
- Binding refresh request
- Home Test Init (HoIT)
- Care of Test Init (CoIT)
- Home Test (HoT)
- Care of Test (CoT)
- Binding Update
- Binding acknowledgement
- Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6)
- HA discovery request
- HA discovery reply
- Mobile prefix solicitation
- Mobile prefix advertisement
- Modified router advertisement message
- Modified prefix information
- New advertisement interval option
- New home agent information option
- Correspondent Registration
- Direct registration
- Indirect registration
- Return routability procedure
- Security Mechanisms and Considerations
- Mobile IP trust model
- SA/HA reference
- SA/FA reference
- AAA/Radius
- IPSec
- IKE model
- Host Identity Protocol version 6 (HIPv6)
- Problem definition and scope of HIPv6; decoupling the network and transport layers of a mobile network
- HIP overview and functional elements/changes
- HIP mobility and DNS impacts
- HIP multihoming
- HIP security
- HIP Implementation proposals in standards
- Mobile IP over MPLS
- MPLS overview
- Using MPLS to enhance the MIP experience
- CE routers
- PE routers
- Label switched paths
- VRF concepts
- Route discovery protocols
- The MPLS domain
- Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
- Overview of IMS
- IP gateway
- AAA/HSS and SLF
- Security/PKI
- P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF
- Application layer
- BGCF
- MGCF
- PDF/PEF
- Exercises: IMS/Mobile IP Call Flows
- Mobile to mobile VoIP call
- Mobile to landline VoIP to PSTN interworking
- Video streaming
- Audio streaming
- 3G IMS MIP session sending SMS to 2G legacy SMS on same network, and on different networks
- Roaming case studies
- Wrap Up: Course Recap, Q/A, and Evaluations
