Selectins are multi-functional adhesion molecules that mediate the initial interactions between circulating leukocytes and the endothelium. First identified over a decade ago, selectins have provided insight into areas as diverse as normal lymphocyte homing, leukocyte recruitment during inflammatory responses, carbohydrate ligand biosynthesis and adhesion-mediated signalling. This review will e...

Mobility, multi-homing, local addressing and end-to-end security at the network layer remain challenging even with the advent of IPv6. We propose a new network protocol, which can be built upon IPv6 incrementally, that breaks the address into two separate entities, a Locator and an Identifier, with crisp semantics for each, that seeks to solve these issues through an improved naming and address...

As an emerging technique, cooperative device to device (CD2D) communication has been considered to be a solution to capacity shortage problem. Combining multi-homing and CD2D techniques together can potentially improve network performance. We propose a novel multi-homing CD2D (MH-CD2D) network, in which multiple homing mobile devices (MMDs) act as relays for the cooperative communications of or...

This report presents a summary of applications and application areas that are envisaged to benefit from the features of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP). The main three features provided by the HIP protocol are security, mobility support, and multi-homing support. We present the following main scenarios, in which HIP is potentially useful: VPN for road warriors, traditional applications includi...

objective(s):the limited homing potential of bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (bm-msc) is the key obstacle in msc-based therapy. it is believed that chemokines and chemokine receptor interactions play key roles in cellular processes associated with migration. meanwhile, mscs express a low level of distinct chemokine receptors and they even lose these receptors on their surface after a...

Network measurement has shown that a specific IP address prefix may be announced by more than one autonomous system (AS), a phenomenon commonly referred to as Multiple Origin AS, or MOAS. MOAS can be due to either operational need to support multi-homing, or false route announcements due to configuration or implementation errors, or even by intentional attacks. Packets following such bogus rout...

This code contribution paper provides an overview of the enhancements to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) environment of the INET FRAMEWORK. Besides a highly improved SCTP core protocol, a couple of SCTP extensions – being either already standardized or currently under discussion in the IETF – have been realized. Furthermore, extended test applications and an auto-routing module ...