Study of Network and Transport Layer Protocols to Exploit the Potential of Higher Layers in Mobility Management

A brief survey of existing protocols for providing seamless mobility in IP based network is carried out with an emphasis on mobility management in IPv6. The paper covers evolving mobility protocols at network layer, their improvements over the predecessor. Apart from this various transport layer mobility protocols have also been studied so that the role of higher layers in mobility management can be exploited to make the process of mobility simpler and less prone to infrastructural change.