Rapid Mobility via Type Indirection
Ben Y. Zhao
Ling Huang
Anthony D. Joseph
John Kubiatowicz
Third International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2004)
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Paper Abstract
Economies of scale and advancements in wide-area wireless networking
are leading to the availability of more small, networked mobile
devices, placing higher stress on existing mobility infrastructures.
This problem is exacerbated by the formation of mobile crowds that generate storms
of location update traffic as they cross boundaries between base
stations. In this paper, we present a novel aggregation technique we
call type indirection that
allows mobile crowds to roam as single mobile entities. We
discuss our design in the context of Warp,
a mobility infrastructure based on a peer-to-peer overlay, and show
that its performance approaches that of Mobile IP with optimizations
while significantly reducing the effect of handoff
storms.