New research perspectives opened up by the combination of IP and WDM technologies present an excellent opportunity for reformulating certain aspects of multicast transmission, bringing them more in line with the needs of future generations of IP internetworking. This paper includes new proposals for handling state information about the multicast distribution tree, as well as for the establishme...

Currently, mobile service provision is facing important advancements towards more flexible business models and fresh Internet-like services with the internetworking of several complementary access technologies using the Internet Protocol (IP) as a mean of integration. The result of such integration, also known as “4th Generation Networks”, will require the provision of a “persistent transport s...

Today no one can deny the need for Smart Grid and it is being considered as of utmost importance to upgrade outdated electric infrastructure to cope with the ever increasing electric load demand. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is considered a promising candidate for internetworking of smart meters with the gateway using mesh topology. This paper investigates the performance of AODV routing proto...

This paper proposes a security framework with quality of service (QoS) mechanisms embedded in a Next Generation Internet architecture to support healthcare infrastructure with mobile wireless sensors. The framework shields the complexity of internetworking with a policy management system to subscribe quality of service and level of security. The framework also hides the intricacy of mobile wire...

This memo describes a snapshot of the reasoning behind a proposed new namespace, the Host Identity namespace, and a new protocol layer, the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), between the internetworking and transport layers. Herein are presented the basics of the current namespaces, their strengths and weaknesses, and how a new namespace will add completeness to them. The roles of this new namespace...

This memo describes a snapshot of the reasoning behind a proposed new namespace, the Host Identity namespace, and a new protocol layer, the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), between the internetworking and transport layers. Herein are presented the basics of the current namespaces, their strengths and weaknesses, and how a new namespace will add completeness to them. The roles of this new namespace...

In recent years, there has been an increasing reliance on internetworking technology for military communication networks. As more diverse and mission critical applications begin to coexist within this shared infrastructure the need for improved network traffic and bandwidth management becomes apparent. Recent developments within the research community and within commercial products provide nume...

In developing and successfully implementing a classroom project on ‘Internetworking’ in secondary education, the author found that there is a need for adequate educational software. Abstract informatics concepts have to be connected to real-life experiences. In this paper the concept of views that support different perspectives on the subject is applied to meet the requirements for educational ...

It is well known that TCP has formed the backbone of the Internet stability and has been well tuned over years. Today the situation has changed, that is because the internetworking environment become more complex than ever, resulting in changes in TCP congestion control are produced and still in progress. In this paper we use an analytic fluid approach in order to analyze the different features...

Adaptive applications are a key concept to take into account when dealing with multimedia internetworking in wireless and mobile environments, in which network conditions may change abruptly and not always due to congestion –as it happens in fixed networks– but also to interference, mobility and so on. This paper presents an adaptation architecture which allows applications to minimize the impa...