Abstract: Design and Development of an Integrated Solution for 
Mobile IP and AODV networks by Varaporn Pangboonyanon
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The operational integration of mobile devices equipped with Mobile IP and ad hoc 
networking protocols enables a user to roam between infrastructure based networks 
(WLAN, GPRS, UMTS, WiMAX, etc.) and infrastructure-less networks (consisting of no 
routers, no base stations, no access points), without breaking an on going 
communication session. A user residing in an ad hoc network will attempt to find a 
foreign agent that is located within the ad hoc network, which is connected to the 
Internet. Discovery of the foreign agent has to be done with the AODV 
(Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector) routing protocol and finally, should use Mobile IP
 to register the new location with the foreign agent and the home agent. The most 
challenging aspect in this process is to manage the routing environment of the 
mobile user’s device. There are several proposals of integrating Mobile IP and 
AODV protocols.

The objective of this project is to research and implement a suitable solution to 
integrate Mobile IP and AODV, implemented by the following protocol handlers. 

JMIP: A Mobile IP protocol handler that was developed in Java, as defined in RFC 3344,
JAdhoc: An AODV protocol handler that was developed in Java, as defined in RFC 3561 
 
The implemented solution (named JAdMIP) operates on IPv4 networks. The research that 
was done as part of this work also looks at an analytical model to control the 
flooding of agent advertisement messages dynamically. Further, some performance 
testing is also done for this implementation using ICMP data streams that are 
generated by a mobile node in an AODV network. These results are analysed 
considering different scenarios in a test-bed of 10 nodes, by varying the 
number of foreign agents and hops between foreign agents and mobile nodes.