Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged

by James Solomon and James D. Solomon

Mobile IP (Internet Protocol) brings together two of the world's most powerful technology trends: the Internet and mobile communications. This is the first book to clearly explain what Mobile IP is,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0138562466
• ISBN13: 9780138562465
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, greatly enjoyable!

Great book. Beautifully written, clearly explained, and well organized. I even liked the figures which had a uniform pleasant look unlike a lot of the Internet and computer related books. I have bought and thrown away many books written about the Internet protocols so this book was a breath of fresh air. Instead of cutting and pasting bunch of stuff available in various places, this author actually really presented the subject in a cohesive manner. You can tell he knows his stuff and he took the time to present it. This book is not only a great way to learn about mobile IP but to learn about security, IP in general, etc. If you already know a little about those topics, this book will be easy to read and it will even give you new insights in those areas. If you never knew what a MAC or link address was or how TCP/IP worked this book might be a miss for you. This book joins the list of great books like Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated" or Seifert's "The Switch Book."

Mobile IP and a great IP network introduction

I found this book useful as my introduction to IP network communications (network layer). My background is not in networks but I was able to pick up this book and learn about; Routers, IP addresses and their assignments, Tunneling, Encapsulation, TCP/IP, Security issues, and Mobile IP to the extent that I understand the steps involved when a Mobile IP node moves from one link to another. I have read many technical books/papers and most most of them clutter and disjoint ideas. Not this book. This book is methodical, orderly, clear and written in plain English. I think you will like it.As an additional bonus, the book spends some time (10 pages) with an overview of TCP and explains why TCP works better over land lines than wireless media. There is a discussion of the problems processing real-time data over IP and proposes solutions.I am an average reader and it took me approximately 30 hours to read the 300 pages over a period of five weeks. The book leaves out detail but references the IETF papers for the interested reader. The book had NO word "misspells" nor sentence "misspeaks". (I always notice those things.) There are great diagram sketches for example discussions.The author was the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) co-chair of the Mobile IP working group and led the group to a deployable solution. The book explains that because he was involved since 1994 he understands the trade-offs and issues.

Understandable without double speak.

This is indeed written in a clear understandable style that takes you from the problem to the proposed solution in an understandable progression. It is the only book I've found on the subject that I would recommend, and I've read them all. Working as an engineer on the system he briefly gives as an example, it is the book I recommend to all our engineers getting involved in Mobile IP for the first time. If you are looking for something to tell you what mobility in a network environment means, this is the one. Unlike some others, "no previous experience required" here.

Right on target

If you want to understand mobile-IP this is the book for you. So many books these days seem to be written merely to demonstrate how smart the author is (compared to the hapless reader) -- not this book. The explanations are exceptionally clear. Especially strong on the security impacts of mobile-IP.

Never ever was Mobile IP so easy to understand

The book provides both: an excellent overview for a beginner in this field in an easy understandable way and a complete reference for anybody who wants to know all the details about current solutions, problems and the ongoing work. The application of mobility is handled from different perspectives (Campus view, Internet-Wide view, Service Provider view) with increasing complexity concentrating on security issues. By the way: the security primer in this book is one of the best I have ever seen compared to many books dealing with security issues only. Also for anybody who is interested in Virtual Private Networks this book is a wonderfull supplement.