There is an increasing demand for realizing communication services for nomadic environments, capable to provide applications with mobility management facilities and application-aware adaptation support. This paper proposes a novel mobility management and communication architecture specifically suited for nomadic environments, offering communication facilities and adaptation support by means of ...

BACKGROUND An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. METHODS Ethnographic tools including interviews, g...

We conducted a multi-isotope study of five fifth-century AD cemeteries in modern-day Hungary to determine relationships between nomadic-pastoralist incomers-the historically documented Huns and other nomadic groups-and the sedentary agricultural population of the late Roman province of Pannonia. Contemporary historical sources describe this relationship as adversarial and destructive for the la...

Continuing advances in wireless communications and feature integration into laptop computers are creating the need to allow nomadic users to make network connections to the Internet and with each other with no loss of functionality. This requires new advances in routing protocols and application interfaces. We use mobile-IP as the basis for providing mobility for nomadic users, and extend it to...