Mobile SCTP Transport Layer Mobility Management for the Internet

Transport layer mobility management is proposed as an alternative to network layer methods like Mobile IP for realising seamless mobility in the Internet. Mobility management in the transport layer is purely accomplished by use of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) and some of its currently proposed extensions. With Mobile SCTP seamless hand over even crossing physical, link and network layer technologies is fully realised inside the mobile client at the end of the network not needing any additional provisions in the network. Mobile services can be provided to such clients by mobile SCTP enabled servers from everywhere in the Internet to anywhere in the Internet. Client mobility management based on mobile SCTP seems not to require any new protocol development. It is a particular application of SCTP eventually solving the requirements of mobility in the Internet.