A Uniform Host Protocol Framework Planning to Change

As a substantial foundation of the Internet, traditional layered host protocol stack is found to be a framework "not planning to change". This framework is hard to accommodate new layers and new protocols, hence hard to provide new services including security and mobility. What\´s more, it is also hard to share information among layers, which is critical for cross-layer optimization in MANET implementation. A novel protocol stack framework, altitude based architecture (ABA), is presented in this paper. The proposed framework is cater to framework extensibility, and by negotiation mechanisms, a universal communication model is also presented for backward-compatibility. ABA, which is planning to change, aims to build a uniform host protocol framework for future Internet and MANET. Analyses and simulation illustrations are also given in the paper.