Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A new multicasting-based architecture for Internet host mobility
MobiCom '97 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
An activity-based mobility model and location management simulation framework
MSWiM '99 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
An end-to-end approach to host mobility
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Mobile communications
A multicast-based protocol for IP mobility support
COMM '00 Proceedings of NGC 2000 on Networked group communication
HAWAII: A Domain-Based Approach for Supporting Mobility in Wide-Area Wireless Networks
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
Optimized Smooth Handoffs in Mobile IP
ISCC '99 Proceedings of the The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Link layer assisted mobile IP fast handoff method over wireless LAN networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
WIOPT '05 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
TrafficNet: a L2 network architecture for road-to-vehicle communication
Proceedings of the Third international EURO-NGI network of excellence conference on Wireless systems and mobility in next generation internet
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The original design of the Internet and its underlying protocols did not anticipate users to be mobile. With the growing interest in supporting mobile users and mobile computing, a great deal of work is taking place to solve this problem. For a solution to be practical, it has to integrate easily with existing Internet infrastructure and protocols, and offer an adequate migration path toward what might represent the ultimate solution. In that respect, the solution has to be incrementally scalable to handle a large number of mobile users and wide geographical scopes, and well performing so as to support all application requirements including voice and video communications and a wide range of mobility speeds. In this paper, we present a survey of the state-of-the-art and propose a scalable infrastructure to support mobility in Internet protocol networks. In that respect, we exploit local area network (LAN) technologies to create the network infrastructure necessary to offer connectivity to mobile users across any geographical area (building, campus and metropolis). The intrinsic properties of LAN technologies and their underlying protocols, namely flat address space, transparent learning and low complexity renders this solution particularly cost effective for supporting user mobility. In particular, we propose a network topology and a set of protocols that render the infrastructure scalable to a large geographical area and many users.