Providing Movement Information to Applications in Wireless IPv6 and Mobile IPv6 Terminals

摘要

Innovative, adaptive and context-aware applications today are poised to take advantage of their immediate surroundings for interaction, both with the user as well as with other surrounding devices. Often, these applications reside in mobile devices, and the need for obtaining movement detection information is placed at a premium. However, very little work actually exists in bringing this information to such applications in a uniform way. In this paper, we address the lack of consistent application level support for obtaining timely information related to network-level movement detection and location awareness, by presenting the design and architecture of a movement notification system to support advanced mobile applications. This system was designed primarily for use for wireless devices moving in IPv6 and Mobile IPv6 spaces, although it can also be used for IPv4. Future work on the system is also discussed.