Title
User-centric mobility management for multimedia content access
Abstract
Current mobility protocols and architectures are mainly targeted to devices or applications and they usually lack the ability to support user-centric paradigms; moreover, they usually face a single aspect of the problem, i.e., terminal handover or session mobility. Full mobility support is only available to specific applications or protocols (e.g., SIP) but these approaches do not exploit all facilities for movement detection at the network/link layers and do not allow to use the same framework for different applications. This paper proposes a generic mobility framework for terminal handover and session migration. It pursues the user-centric paradigm and builds a cross-layer architecture, yielding to a high level of generality, applicability and flexibility. Unlike other approaches, it does not require any modification in correspondent peers and works with a minimal network infrastructure. Software implementations are described for two representative real-time multimedia applications, i.e., media streaming and interactive conference. The effectiveness of the framework was analyzed by means of both performance measurements in local and Internet testbeds and user evaluation during a live demo conducted at a national science exhibition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11042-011-0827-9
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobility architecture,Pervasive communication,User-centric media,Personal address
Architecture,Mobility management,Computer science,Computer network,Mobility model,Exploit,Multimedia,Handover,Generality,User-centered design,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
70
1
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
34
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raffaele Bolla173669.90
Riccardo Rapuzzi2163.92
M. Repetto38319.34