A mobile node that is an end host and not a router. A Mobile Host is capable of sending and receiving packets. A mobile host can be a source or destination of traffic, but not a forwarder of it.
Published in Chapter:
The Whole World is Going Mobile
Charles E. Perkins (Futurewei, USA)
Source Title: Handbook of Research on Redesigning the Future of Internet Architectures
Copyright: © 2015|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8371-6.ch007
Abstract
The Internet is growing ever more mobile – meaning, that an ever greater proportion of Internet devices are mobile devices. This trend necessitates new designs and will produce new and even unpredictable conceptions about the very nature of the Internet and, more fundamentally, the nature of social interaction. The engineering response to growing mobility and complexity is difficult to predict. This chapter summarizes the past and the present ways of dealing with mobility, and uses that as context for trying to understand what needs to be done for the future. Central to the conception of future mobility is the notion of “always available” and highly interactive applications. Part of providing acceptable service in that conception of the mobile Internet will require better ways to manage handovers as the device moves around the Internet, and ways to better either hide or make available a person's identity depending on who is asking.
