Improving Internet Mobility : The TCP - to - SCTP Translation Layer

The design of the current Internet infrastructure is based on unicast point-to-point communications between fixed hosts. In this model, the sender must know the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the receiver and IP simply routes data packets based on the IP address. Specifically, a client host must know the IP of the server host in order to make a request and the server host assumes the IP of the client host will not change during the lifetime of the communication. IP addressing is assumed to satisfy the need of locating a single fixed host by a single IP address.