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Current day mobility solutions are characterized by a number of essential restrictions that prevent them from being successful in an overlay network environment. This paper proposes 4 properties that mobility solutions must have to address these restrictions: application cooperation, higher layer mobility awareness, general applicability and protocol heterogeneity. Subsequently, a mobility solution that realizes all these properties is described. The solution introduces a session layer in the protocol stack that consists of two subsystems: the connection abstraction system and the address management system. Other mobility solutions found in the literature, session layer and others, typically only realize a subset of the four properties.
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Tom Mahieu holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in computer sciences that he obtained at the Catholic University of Leuven. After obtaining his Master's degree in 1997, he was admitted into the Distrinet research group at the Department of Computer Science of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium as a research and teaching assistant, where he is current working on flexible component architectures for protocol stacks under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Verbaeten and Prof. Wouter Joosen. His Ph.D. dissertation deals with protocol stack support for applications that operate in dynamically changing network environments, such as mobile and wireless networks.
Pierre Verbaeten is the head of the DistriNet research group. His main research interest is on system support and software engineering support for distributed systems. Under his supervision, DistriNet has grown to a group of 40 researchers (both Ph.D. students and postdocs) and 6 professors. He is responsible for teaching courses on computer architecture, computer networks and distributed systems.
Wouter Joosen received a Ph.D. degree at the K.U. Leuven in 1996. His main research interests are in the areas of software architecture for distributed systems, aspect-oriented and component-based development, middleware, software security and embedded systems. Over the last 10 years, Wouter Joosen has been researching software development technologies (processes, architectures, notations and prototypes) that enable the construction and management of distributed applications that need support for a number of non-functional requirements, including security, real-time aspects, reliability and load balancing.
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Mahieu, T., Verbaeten, P. & Joosen, W. A Session Layer Concept for Overlay Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 35, 111–121 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-8743-9
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