Abstract : A Graphical User Interface for UoB-NOMAD Software
by Wang Ping
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Mobile IP is a standard protocol which is an extension of the Internet Protocol by making
mobility transparent to applications and higher level protocols such as UDP, TCP.
SUN Labs Mobile IP software is a user space application for Mobile IP. Originally, it was
written for SUN Solaris operating system and later extended to run on Linux. ComNets
has modied this software to provide multiple interface support on the mobile device and
to implement the IETF draft (Filters for Mobile IPv4 Bindings) to distribute IP trac
(ows) between multiple interfaces of a mobile node. The current version of this software
is released under SPL (Sun Public License), as UoB-NOMAD.

The purpose of this project is to create a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for UoBNOMAD
software. The GUI is an independent application that communicates with the
UoB-NOMAD using an UDP connection in a client/server communication model. Using
such a IP address/port based communication mechanism allows it to be executed in any
computer, even on a dierent machine from which the UoB-NOMAD is running. The GUI
gets updated with status information of UOB-NOMAD software on a dynamic basis.

In this project, Mobile IP, Filters for Mobile IP Bindings and the operations of UoBNOMAD
software have been studied and GUI for both mobile node (client component)
and agents (server component) were implemented on Linux with QT 3.0, C++ toolkit.
This implementation is released under GPL, as UoB-NOMAD-GUI version 0.1, to work
with UoB-NOMAD version 0.11.