Information-centric networking (ICN) promises to overcome the networking challenges of the current Internet, e.g. the explosion of content consumption and the widening gap between traffic and capacity growth, by decoupling the content from the network locations. Simultaneously, the dominant mode of content access in Internet is materializing as IP-based broadband wireless networks with advanced...

Many research work is going on in the domain of pure ad-hoc networking and even more issues are raised due to the missing central infrastructure to properly manage resources, guarantee fairness, and provide security features. On the other hand lot of research effort is spent to increase the performance of infrastructure-based access networks to cope with the steadily increasing demand for broad...

The paper addresses the question how the benefits of active networking, such as customized packet processing in the data path and flexible service management, can be achieved in a telecom environment. More precisely, we ask: How can a network provider, whose infrastructure is based on active networking technology, support a large number of customers, all of which independently install, run, and...

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ( MANETs ) are complex distributed systems that comprise wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self – organize into arbitrary and temporary “ ad hoc “ network topologies, allowing people and devices to internetwork in areas with no pre – existing communication infrastructure. Adhoc networking concept is not a new one, having been around in various forms fo...

Providing wireless networking to vehicles has been identified as a near-term goal by the automotive industry in the support of basic Internet access as well as an enabler to a variety of safety enhancement applications. Network connectivity to on-board computers can be provided via existing mobile telephony; however, these systems rely on both expensive infrastructure (cell towers) and a strong...

Wireless networks enable mobility, multihoming, and Delay Tolerant Networks. In such networking environments, the principles of the Internet, i.e., the end-to-end principle and the combination of location and identification in IP addresses, cannot be applied. In this paper, we propose a scalable application centric approach for mobility and multihoming that is able to interconnect highly hetero...

This paper proposes to implement an IPv6 routing infrastructure as a self-organizing overlay network on top of the current IPv4 infrastructure. The overlay network builds upon a distributed IPv6 edge router with a master/slave architecture. We show how different slaves can be constructed to tunnel through NATs and firewalls, as well as to improve the robustness of the routing infrastructure and...

Demands on networking infrastructure are growing exponentially due to bandwidth-hungry applications such as rich media applications and inter-data-center communications. In this context, it is important to optimally use the bandwidth in wired networks that extensively use link aggregation groups and equal-cost multipaths as techniques for bandwidth scaling. This document explores some of the me...

With mobile computers and wireless networking hardware becoming widely, and increasingly cheaply, available, a large body of effort has recently gone into integrating this technology with the existing, prevailingly wired Internet. Up to now, integration specifications oftentimes assume some kind of fixed, hence wired, infrastructure even for the wireless part, like a core of base stations or ac...