Title :
Mobility support: a multi-domain bridging matter
Author :
Van Thanh, Do ; Audestad, Jan A.
Author_Institution :
Ericsson AS, Billingstad, Norway
Abstract :
We view mobility support as a bridging matter between fixed and mobile domains. In single domain systems, mobility is implicitly supported by access and location transparencies provided by the distributed processing environment (DPE). Distributed telecommunication systems span, however, several domains that are controlled by different actors and may also be fixed or mobile. Mobility is no longer automatically supported since interoperability is not always guaranteed between domains. In order to provide interoperability between fixed or mobile domains, the agent concept is proposed. Mobility is, thereafter, made transparent to the applications by using the proxy concept
Keywords :
distributed processing; mobile communication; object-oriented methods; open systems; agent concept; distributed processing environment; distributed telecommunication systems; fixed domains; interoperability; location transparencies; mobility support; multi domain bridging matter; proxy concept; single domain systems; Automatic control; Computer architecture; Control systems; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Security; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication control;
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop [1997]. EDOC '97. Proceedings. First International
Conference_Location :
Gold Coast, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8031-8
DOI :
10.1109/EDOC.1997.628375
