User-centric mobility management in cooperative environments

Resumo

Internet services and models have been changing their paradigms due to the widespread of wireless technologies, multimedia user-friendly terminals and open-source content tools. These factors are modifying the way to deliver and consume Internet services, where the end-user plays a more important role in the control of content and connectivity. Future Internet models have to integrate properties that allow nomadic end-user experience for any application across multi-access or single-access networks, assuming that one or more operators are involved. In the future, to overcome these very dynamic and cooperative mobile scenarios, it is necessary to develop intelligent mechanisms for mobility management, centered on end-user and guaranteeing the best satisfaction and experience to him. This paper describes and analyses the user centric mobility management paradigm in networks driven by Human behaviors, following peer-to-peer overlay schemes and cooperative environments. It will also be presented the main ideas and principals of an architecture, aiming to provide global mobility management in spontaneous wireless environments that self-adjust to any network topology change. This global mobility management is addressed from a decentralized perspective, ensuring a transparent access to Internet services. End-users will be able to access their subscribed services independently of the attachment point and location, based upon their own requirements and maintaining the best Quality of Experience (QoE).