Soto Campos, IgnacioBernardos Cano, Carlos JesúsCalderón Pastor, María CarmenBanchs Roca, AlbertAzcorra Saloña, Arturo2011-03-162011-03-162009-05IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2009, v. 47 (5), pp. 152-1590163-6804http://hdl.handle.net/10016/10477This article surveys the major existing approaches and proposes a novel architecture to support mobile networks in network-based, localized mobility domains. Our architecture enables conventional terminals without mobility support to obtain connectivity either from fixed locations or mobile platforms (e.g., vehicles) and move between them, while keeping their ongoing sessions. This functionality offers broadband Internet access in automotive scenarios such as public transportation systems, where users spend time both in vehicles and at stations. The key advantage of our proposal, as compared with current alternatives, is that the described mobile functionality is provided to conventional IP devices that lack mobility functionality. We also performed an experimental evaluation of our proposal that shows that our architecture improves the quality perceived by the end users.application/pdfeng© IEEE3G mobile communicationInternetAutomobilesIP devicesresearch articleTelecomunicacioneshttps://www.doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2009.4939291open access