Mobile Self-organized Service-oriented Networks

Author(s):

  • Vasco Aleluia, IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Pedro Fernandes, IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Rui M. Rocha, IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Fernando Mira da Silva, INESC - Instituto de Engenharia e Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Source: Proceedings of ICT 2006, 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, May 2006

Citation:

Keywords: Self-organized networks, seamless mobility, service oriented

Abstract:

The growing number of users relying on wireless networks to access the Internet is imposing new challenges to both technological and architectural aspects of today systems. An evolution to a more flexible self-organized and self-maintained architecture, where mesh networking and seamless mobility are of paramount importance, is seen as inevitable. This paper addresses a new architecture based on self-organized principles and IPv6, where service support is handled at a higher abstraction level. In this context, solutions for the addressing scheme, mobility support, self-organization and node interconnection are proposed. A prototype was developed as a proof of concept and performance measurements were obtained from a given set of scenarios. Main results showed acceptable performance (e.g. 20 ms for average session establishment) on the majority of the scenarios.

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