A secure P2P architecture for location management

Networking and computing have become so tied and have naturally integrated our daily life and are evolving to a ubiquitous and transparent interaction between users and information. Distributed and collaborative architectures particularly P2P solutions, proved to be the most efficient way to meet the requirements of pervasive computing. However, many security and mobility issues have to be considered. In this paper, we propose a secure architecture for location management in mobile environments. It inherits from the P2P paradigm features, such as scalability, flexibility and fault-tolerance; thus adapting to dynamic changes of information context.