METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MTD

• Main Authors: Roshandel, Mehran, Gowtham, Varun, Thimmaraju, Kashyap
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 30.09.2020
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

The present invention refers to a method for enabling at least one node of a communication network including a plurality of nodes, the at least one node acting as a client, to maintain or initiate communication with a process of another node acting as server, although a present socket address of the process is changing. The method comprises at least the steps of: (a) defining at least one shared event as a coordinated activity between the client and the server on the occurence of which the client and the server select and hop to a new socket address different from the present socket address, (b) providing to both, the server and the client, an address bank of available socket addresses, (c) defining information shared between the client and the server as at least one shared secret, (d) on the occurence of the at least one shared event, selecting, based on the shared secret, a new socket address from the address bank. The present invention further refers to an appropriate system.