A New Efficient Mechanism for Establishing IP Connectivity between Ambient Networks

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Rui Campos (Author) FEUP; Manuel Ricardo (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1-8

Pages: 2314-2319

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009)

Dresden, GERMANY, JUN 14-18, 2009

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-003-SSF

DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5198639

Abstract (EN): The changes in the communication paradigm envisioned for future networks, with peer-to-peer/symmetric attachments gaining momentum and two IP (Internet Protocol) versions coexisting, will pose new challenges to mobile communication networks. Traditional IP auto-configuration mechanisms will not work properly, since they were designed mostly having in mind a client-server/asymmetric attachment model, they assume a single IP version paradigm, and they target the auto-configuration of devices only. The IST Ambient Networks project has introduced a new concept - the Ambient Network - that enables handling every communication entity, either a single device or an entire network, as an Ambient Network (AN). This paper describes a new efficient mechanism, named Basic Connectivity (BC) mechanism, for auto-configuring IP connectivity between attaching ANs. A proof-of-concept prototype, experimental results, and theoretical analysis show that BC suites the future networking paradigm and represents a solution more efficient than the current trial-and-error mechanism for auto-configuring IP connectivity.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6