A Uniform Host Protocol Framework Planning to Change
Tian Chen, Liu Wenyu, Yi Wang, Huaien Luo · 2008
As a substantial foundation of the Internet, traditional layered host protocol stack is found to be a framework "not planning to change". This framework is hard to accommodate new layers and new protocols, hence hard to provide new services including security and mobility. What's more, it is also hard to share information among layers, which is critical for cross-layer optimization in MANET implementation. A novel protocol stack framework, altitude based architecture (ABA), is presented in this paper. The proposed framework is cater to framework extensibility, and by negotiation mechanisms, a universal communication model is also presented for backward-compatibility. ABA, which is planning to change, aims to build a uniform host protocol framework for future Internet and MANET. Analyses and simulation illustrations are also given in the paper.