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Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have shown a high-potential to fulfill the requirements of the Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Although mobility management is crucial to develop large-scale WMNs, the heterogeneity of today’s Internet will imply a context-aware architecture in the future to optimize the users’ experience. Network virtualization, as a mean to share and isolate resources, can be used as an element to construct different types of virtual networks (overlays), each one optimized for a specific set of contexts: security, mobility, Quality of Service (QoS), cost, preferences. In this paper, we present a context-aware multi-overlay architecture that enables a user to connect to the WMN that best fits its requirements and approaches. We concentrate on how to build such an architecture: how a user can move maintaining its requirements through the re-configuration of overlays, and how context can be mapped, organized and distributed in the network nodes. We also discuss the entities and the complexity of this architecture.
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Matos, R., Sargento, S. (2010). Context-Aware Connectivity and Mobility in Wireless Mesh Networks. In: Pentikousis, K., Blume, O., Agüero Calvo, R., Papavassiliou, S. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11817-3_5
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