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Policy-based mobility in heterogeneous networks

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The importance of mobility in networks is being increased together with the number of mobile users and applications. However, we still do not have broadly accepted solutions for mobility in Internet or other type of networks. In particular, mobility is difficult in heterogeneous networks, where heterogeneity could expand over ownership, administration, technology, and so on. We propose policy-based approach as the best and more realistic way to support mobility for heterogeneous networks. Policies express the interests of corresponding domains. Therefore, the accordance among various policies will enable inter domain mobility that satisfies all involved parts in networking. We extend our Architecture for Heterogeneous Multi Domain networks with policy-based support for mobility. We show that by applying a policy-based approach, mobility is supported as trade-off among different aspects, depending on the respective administrations’ goals. We illustrate such capability by showing how trade-offs among security and network performance can be designed and obtained.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 1019120, 1138659 and by CACR IU.

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    Ping Zhang & Arjan Durresi

  2. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 811-0295, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

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Zhang, P., Durresi, A. & Barolli, L. Policy-based mobility in heterogeneous networks. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 4, 331–338 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-011-0103-x

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