Mobility Support Framework in Adaptable Service Architecture

  • Mazen Malek Shiaa
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Part of the IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing book series (IFIPAICT, volume 133)

Abstract

Mobility is regarded as the most important feature needed to achieve adaptability and flexibility in the execution of service components. As such, service systems could be able to cope with the handling of dynamic changes in the availability of resources and position of users. On the other hand, providing user-centric and personal-content driven wide range of services, more commonly wireless ones, to end users regardless of their location and used equipment, seem to be the most important objective of such a feature. Mobility, in this context, is a feature facilitating the free and coordinated movement of, for instance, users, software components, user terminals, etc. One should always consider the vibrant configuration and settings of not only end-users applications and environment, but also the network resources, components and services. The reason is due to the ever changing and increasing demands and requirements in functionality, security, reliability and QoS. Mobility support in self-managing, dynamically configurable network architecture seems to be even more challenging, however recent development and improvements in network infrastructure show a greater prospect for codeon-demand and adaptive network management. TAPAS, and its mobility handling architecture, presented in this paper, tend to give some answers and take a step towards achieving such goals.

Key words

Mobility Management Plug-and-Play Network Architecture 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mazen Malek Shiaa
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  1. 1.Department of TelematicsNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheimNorway

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