Enhancing naming and location services to support multi-homed devices in heterogeneous environments

The growth of the Mobile Internet is being fuelled by the development of heterogeneous devices which have several wireless interfaces. This brings new challenges which require a critical examination of current Internet Infrastructure with a view to providing better support for mobility, multi-homing and virtual networking. This paper considers a recently published solution to the multi-homing issue, and based on that proposes enhancements to support the core location and naming servers with the introduction of the Master Locator and the Enhanced DNS.

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