A Directory Infrastructure to Support Mobile Services

Dartmouth Technical Report TR2001-391

	Ammar Khalid

Date: June 2001

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2001-391.ps.Z> (1672KB)

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2001-391.pdf> (368KB)

Abstract:
 Traditional Voice-over-IP applications such as Microsoft NetMeeting 
 assume that the user is on a machine with a fixed IP address. If, 
 however, the user connects to the Internet, via a wireless network, 
 on a handheld device, his IP address frequently changes as he moves 
 from one subnet to another. In such a situation, we need a service 
 that can be queried for the most current IP address of a person whom 
 we wish to contact. In this project, we design and implement such a 
 directory service. The service authenticates all callers and callees, 
 is robust against most host failure, and scales to several thousand 
 registered users.

Note:
 Senior Honors Thesis.  Advisor: David Kotz.