Ubiquitous Access through the Integration of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

The increasing requirement for ubiquitous access of the users, enable the seamless support of different networks, with different technologies, and also with different types, such as moving networks and ad-hoc networks. This paper describes the ad-hoc network integration architecture being developed inside the IST project Daidalos II. The main purpose of this architecture is to seamlessly support the movement of nodes between ad-hoc and infrastructure networks, maintaining in the ad-hoc networks all the features being supported in the infrastructure, such as, efficient routing for unicast and multicast flows, distributed QoS mechanisms, security, and seamless mobility, including multihoming support.