Active Networks in Mobile Computing Environment

Telecommunication service providers have begun to offer ubiquitous access to data. As a result, the Internet is not limited to computers that are physically connected but is also available to users that are equipped with mobile devices. This access fuels the growth and the usage of dynamic Internet, which needs increasing support for Internet Protocols and transmission control protocols over wireless/mobile networks. An active networking architecture provides the infrastructure for applications to inject user programs into the nodes of the network. This enables customization of the network nodes so that application-specific services can be downloaded into the network in the form of new protocols. The aim of the active networking is to design, development and implementation of new communication architecture that allows rapid and safe deployment of advanced networking services. These paper discusses active network requirements and issues in mobile computing environment.