Challenge and solutions of NAT traversal for ubiquitous and pervasive applications on the Internet

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1620-1626

  Chen, Yaw Chung ^a   Jia, Wen Kang ^b  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

NAT (Network Address Translator); NATng (NAT next generation); P2P(Peer to Peer); Pervasive; Ubiquitous

Indexed keywords

NAT (NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATOR); NATNG (NAT NEXT GENERATION); P2P(PEER TO PEER); PERVASIVE; UBIQUITOUS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 69549127976     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.03.078     Document Type: Article

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