Making mobility transparent to the applications

In this paper, we view mobility as a basic characteristic of telecommunication networks in order to, firstly support the type and extent of mobility required by an application and secondly make mobility transparent to it. In this sense, mobility can be viewed as a new class of transparency supported by ODP systems. In order to achieve this aim, we suggest a generic mobility model where mobility is broken down onto components such as identification, access control, authentication, location tracking, location updating, service profile management and service delivery. In order to support the mobility of an application, the necessary mobility components are selected, combined and instantiated