Abstract:
Expanding the Internet infrastructure to span
mobile devices is a challenging task. The Internet's addressing
and routing scheme was originally designed for fixed devices
making it inoperable without redirection and tracking
functions such as those proposed by Mobile IP. However,
Mobile IP requires prior network setup, and causes a large
added overhead. In this paper, we propose a new approach to
support mobile IP users using a Peer-to-Peer overlay network.
The proposed overlay exploits locality to efficiently use the
network resources and manage location data in a selforganizing
and distributed fashion. The simulation results are
presented.
