Handling mobility over the network

Abstract

Future Internet is expected to evolve towards user-centric paradigms, which leverage ubiquitous and pervasive communications. Mobility will be one of the key issues in such evolution. Current mobility protocols have a number of limitations and drawbacks; until now, there is not any general solution that could face all aspects of mobility. The only notable examples are targeted to specific applications. We believe that mobility could be effectively managed through overlay networks at the application layer. In this paper, we motivate our idea and depict some preliminary scenario about this topic.