星期六, 5月 21, 2005

5/28 Class

location management and routing for applications of
ad hoc / infrastructure and low/high mobility

Solutions:
infrastructure, low mobility -> Mobile IP
infrastructure, high mobility -> Cellular, Thin AP
ad hoc, low mobility -> Routing tables
ad hoc, high mobility -> ?

Lessons learned from
1. location management in Skype (Global Index, GI)
2. location management in OceanStore

Requirements of location management mechanism
1. no exhaustive search
2. bounded time to store location information at node(s)
3. bounded time to retrieve location information from node(s)

Reading Assignments:
Chap. 4 for general wireless Internet and
Section 4.3 for Mobile IP

There is a paper about Skype which you can find by scholar.google.com. This paper authored by Columbia University researcher explains their experiments on Skype and the findouts.

New products about Thin AP can be found at www.wi-fiplanet.com.

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