Location transparent connection management: a survey of protocol issues

Abstract

The authors examine one aspect of connection management currently receiving attention: dynamic, location-independent addressing. They offer a proposed clarification of relevant terminology, outline the location transparency problem, and explore both existing and potential approaches to its implementation. Underlying the exploration is the fundamental premise that addressing and routing in a location transparent environment necessitates considering a virtual addressing capability, which allows a device to have an unchanging virtual address at one level, and a physical address at a lower level, which dynamically changes according to the position of the device.<>