Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Using the Internet as a foundation for wirelessnetworking, there is currently a great deal of interestin providing IP networking support for mobile hosts. Asa result of IPs reliance on the entire Internet address for host identification, most proposalsdepend on a default route through the mobile host's homeaddress, which makes for unnecessarily lon...
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Mobile computing, wireless communications, andcheap location tracking and navigation systems have madelocation data a valuable and available commodity formany different kinds of computing applications. However, there are fears that this new wealthof personal location information will lead to newsecurity risks, to the invasion of the privacy of peop...
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Current general purpose mobility solutions likeMobile-IP involve multiple router-crossings even whenthe mobile host moves within an intranet from one subnetof a router to another. An environment consisting of a large number of mobile hosts would congestthe router causing hosts to experience high latency andjitter. This paper presents a mechanism to...
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Interfaces between software modules, processesand programs remain a serious problem for the softwareindustry. The Internet makes it even more important tosolve these problems and mobile computing makes robust design of interfaces critical. Thisdescription of research on improving CORBA interfacesthrough OMSOFT attracted me to one reasonable solutio...
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
This paper presents a traversed pathtracking-based technique for integrated mobility andquality-of-service (QoS) management of connections incellular wireless ATM networks. Simulation andanalytical results for probabilities of connectionBlocking, Dropping, and Unsuccessful Connections aredetermined. A distributed operating system-basedarchitecture ...
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
Published in Journal of Network and Systems Management
This paper describes the essential specificationand design of a CMIP-SNMPv2 application gateway fornetwork management integration and interoperability.Such a intermediate proxy software device allows management of Internet MIB-II objects throughISO/CCITT manager supporting CMIP protocol and CMISmanagement services. All the gateway functionality are...
