An Identifier Locator Separation Protocol for the Shared Prefix Model over IEEE WAVE IPv6 Networks

As the active safety of vehicles has become essential, ve-hicular communication has been gaining attention. The IETF IPWAVE working group has proposed the shared prefix model-based vehicular link model. In the shared prefix model, a prefix is shared among RSUs to prevent changes in IPv6 addresses of a vehicle within a shared prefix do-main. However, vehicle movement must be tracked to deliver packets to the serving RSU of the vehicle within a shared prefix domain. The Iden-tifier/Locator Separation Protocol (ILSP) is one of the techniques used to handle vehicle movement. It has several drawbacks such as the inability to communicate with a standard IPv6 module without special components and the requirement to pass signaling messages between end hosts. Such drawbacks severely limit the service availability for a vehicle in the Inter-net. We propose an ILSP for a shared prefix model over IEEE WAVE IPv6 networks. The proposed protocol supports IPv6 communication between a standard IPv6 node in the Internet and a vehicle supporting the proposed protocol. In addition, the protocol hides vehicle movement within a shared prefix domain to peer hosts, eliminating the signaling between end hosts. The proposed protocol introduces a special NDP module based on IETF IP -WAVE vehicular NDP to support vehicular mobility management within a shared prefix domain and minimize link-level multicast in WAVE networks.