- Design of a Mobility Service Model based on Distributed Networking Architecture
- Gu, Gyeong Ok ; Hong, Chung Seon ; Hyeon, Byeong Gi ; An, Sang Gyu ; Jo, Yong Hwan ;
- The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, volume 24, issue 4B, 1999, Pages 630~630
Abstract
The new network architecture framework for the novel services such as the virtual network services, the mobile and multimedia service requires more flexible access and management than current network infrastructure are capable of providing. To meet the customers' or users' requirement for these services, it requires a network infrastructure into which services can be introduced easily, openly, and quickly. Interoperability, portability and reuse of software components will have prime importance in this new software architecture framework. The software based infrastructure that is called Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture (TINA), would be a main stream for enabling services. In this paper, for supporting customized mobile services, we adopt a new service component, which we call UpeMgr (Ubiquitous Personal Environment Manager). In order to support mobile users who move between heterogeneous networks, for instancess between the TINA-like environment and the Internet environment, we propose a structure of gateway. The proposed UpeMgr uses the fixed and mobile agent approaches for supporting the user's mobility, and we evaluated their performances by comparing those approaches. The proposed UpeMgr object supports personal mobility and session mobility for the mobile users in telecommunication information networks.