Since its commercialization, the Internet has grown exponentially. A large variety of devices can communicate creating advanced services for a diverse ecosystem of applications. However, as the number of Internet hosts has grown, the size of routing tables required to correctly route data between them has also increased exponentially. This growth rate necessitates increasingly frequent upgrades to routing device hardware, providing them with additional memory for fast-access storage of route information. These upgrades are both physically and fiscally untenable, and a new Internet routing solution is necessary for future growth. This research focuses around an incrementally deployable, reactive routing system that is scalable to projected Internet growth. It requires no hardware or software updates to Internet routers, and offoads processing to end hosts and the network's edge. Within this framework, routers can make accurate decisions about optimal data paths; incurring no increase in path length over the current routing system. A new architecture for IP Mobility is considered as a case study within this routing system, and compared with existing standards and implementations. The new architecture eliminates the triangle routing problem, while providing legacy hosts with connectivity to mobile devices. This mobility solution can integrate with a variety of hierarchical reactive routing systems with little overhead.

Au cours des dernières décennies, le besoin pour des communications multimédia en mobilité est devenu indéniable dans les réseaux de type IP, ainsi la gestion de la mobilité et la continuité de session est depuis plusieurs années un problème de recherche très important aussi bien pour le milieu académique qu’industriel. Comme l'hétérogénéité des réseaux d’accès est en perpétuelle évolution, l'intégration des différents types de réseaux sans fil au niveau de la couche IP est devenue un domaine de recherche difficile et inévitable. L'un des problèmes les plus importants liés à l'exécution de la gestion de la mobilité concerne le fait que la couche d'application souffre de la modification d'adresses IP au cours du mouvement du nœud mobile alors que celle-ci construit sa session sur la base de l’adresse IP de connexion au réseau. Une nouvelle approche d'amélioration de la prise en charge de la mobilité propose de séparer l'identification de session et l'identification de l’emplacement ou l’attachement au réseau. Donc, par la séparation de ces deux concepts, les sessions ne sont pas identifiés par les adresses IP qui elles sont dynamiques puisque la mobilité dans le réseau impose le changement d’adresse IP, mais les nouveaux identificateurs uniques qui définissent un nœud et qui ne change pas à cause de la mobilité ce qui offrirait une stabilité pour le niveau applicatif. Selon ces concepts, Host Identity Protocol (HIP) est l'une des solutions dominantes en recherches qui est proposé par l'IETF et l’IRTF. Dans cette thèse, le protocole HIP est principalement examiné et de nouvelles améliorations de la mobilité sur la base de ce protocole ont été conçues et mises en place / Over the last decades, with rapid and tremendous growth of IP networks in mobile and wireless environments, mobility management and session continuity has become a more important issue. As the heterogeneity increases in network environments and gradual spread of Internet of Things wave, the integration of different types of wireless networks in the IP layer became a challenging and inevitable research area. One of the most important issues related to mobility management is related to the fact that the application layer suffers from the changing of IP addresses during the movement of the mobile node. It is expected the network layer and above layers to be aware of movement of mobile nodes. New wave in the improvement ideas on this concept is separating the session identification and the location identification. This avoids the applications to suffer when the IP address changes during the mobility. This new approach needs to introduce a new layer in the TCP/IP protocol stack, on top of the IP layer that will handle the new identifiers correspondent with the current IP address or new complete architecture designs which are inheriting locator/identifier separation idea. According to these concepts, Host Identity Protocol (HIP) is one of the dominant and prominent researches that is proposed by IETF and IRTF. This protocol proposes to solve the locator/identifier split problem by also including the security support. In this thesis, predominantly HIP protocol is examined and new mobility enhancements based on this protocol have been designed and introduced