A new middleware for pervasive IPv6 mobile computing

A growing number of wireless technologies are recently deployed to interconnect Mobile IPv6 nodes. We propose a new framework, called MIMA (Multiple Interfaces Management Architecture), to allow a mobile node to optimize the use of several interfaces. The MIMA framework includes three main modules: an Extraction module which dumps and gathers capacity information of the underlying interfaces, an Interfaces Selector, which spread the flows on the interfaces and the Profiles Manager, which manages different default behaviors on the interfaces and keeps applications profile. The MIMA framework enhances the Mobile IPv6 [6] features by implementing the Fast Handover [3], by performing temporary redirection and by allowing a mobile node to perform vertical handover.