A new techno-business model based on a personal IPv6 address for wireless networks of moving objects

Abstract

A new techno-business model, based on a personal IPv6 (PIPv6) address embedded in an X.509v3 digital certificate, is described in this chapter. The new globally significant, network-independent PIPv6 address class will enable real number ownership and full anytimeanywhere-anyhow portability for future generations of wireless networks of moving objects, such as those in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), and other types of ad hoc networks. The unique PIPv6 address of the network node (object) could serve as its long-term identity, and enable its advanced secure mobility and participation in the variety of evolving dynamic, fluid wireless mobile network scenarios. It can also serve enhanced authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) functionality, through which commercially viable adhoc networking and open mesh-networking solutions are realizable. In these latter, a mobile node (object) acting as a gateway (or a relay) may offer (or facilitate) wireless Internet access services casually or persistently to other mobile nodes or objects and receive credits for this service. This solution is exactly the kind of incentivised one that is required for cooperative relaying over multiple hops, i.e., that available idle mobile nodes and objects are incentivised to operate and offer service as relay nodes for other objects which are trying to reach a gateway for access to specific or general telecommunications services, such as the Internet. The idle nodes may provide this access directly if that is possible or in a dynamic collaboration via a multi-hop link.