A client-driven mobility frame system - Mobility management from a new point of view

In this paper a new mobility management approach is introduced. The main idea in this approach, that not the network but the mobile node should manage the mobility for itself (similarly to the IP concept). The network nodes provide just basic services for mobile entities: connectivity and administration. We construct a protocol called the Client-based Mobility Frame System (CMFS) for this mobility environment. We propose some basic mobility management solutions that should be implemented in the mobile clients and provide details about a working simulation of a complete Mobility Management System. Examples of mobility management approaches such as the centralized- and hierarchical or cellular-like ones are also defined and hints are given what kind of algorithms might be implemented upon the Client-based Mobility Frame System. After the theoretical analysis a simulation shows the applicability of the newly introduced protocol framework.