Early binding updates for mobile IPv6

The long latency associated with mobile IPv6 home-address and care-of-address tests can significantly impact delay-sensitive applications. This paper presents an optimization of mobile IPv6 correspondent registrations that evades the latency of both address tests. An optimized correspondent registration eliminates 50%, or more, of the additional delay that a standard correspondent registration adds to the network stack's overall latency. The optimization is realized as an optional, and fully backward-compatible, extension to mobile IPv6.