Moving Towards User-Centric Paradigms for Internet Mobility

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The Internet is required to support an ever increasing number of multimedia appli- cations in the near future, but the legacy network architecture has already shown its limitations. The need for ubiquitous and pervasive communications is expected to lead the fu- ture Internet towards user-centric paradigms. Users will be always "connected", but this is not enough to realize pervasive com- munication environments. Mobility will be one of the key issues in such evolution. Current mobility protocols have a number of limitations and drawbacks; until now, there is not any general solution that could face all aspects of mobility. The only no- table examples are targeted to specific applications. We believe that mobility could be effectively managed through overlay networks at the application layer. In this paper, we motivate our idea and depict some preliminary scenario about this topic

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