Title
Multicast Mobility in Heterogeneous Technologies: Experimental Validation
Abstract
The convergence of services and technologies has been driven by service and network providers with the aim to develop a unified infrastructure. From the services side, we have multimedia through unicast, multicast and broadcast services. From the technologies side, we have wired and wireless technologies, including unidirectional technologies such as Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB). These trends allied to the increasing mobility and QoS demands, introduce strong requirements to future telecommunication networks. This paper presents an innovative approach to handle multicast services in a heterogeneous networks environment, including broadcast technologies. The presented architecture aims at guaranteeing end-to-end QoS in mobile scenarios, efficiently handling the underlying network resources and integrating the emerging broadcast technologies. This architecture was developed in a real environment with mobility of multicast sessions through heterogeneous technologies, Wi-Fi and DVB, using also Wi-Fi as a return channel. The results show that the architecture is able to support the seamless mobility of users receiving multicast sessions, with low degradation on the running communications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425648
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
qos demand,broadcast service,multicast session,multicast mobility,unidirectional technologies,experimental validation,quality of service,broadcast technology,wireless technologies,mobility management (mobile radio),wired technologies,increasing mobility,heterogeneous technology,multicast service,end-to-end qos,services side,qos,dvb,technologies side,seamless mobility,heterogeneous technologies,wi-fi,multicast communication,heterogeneous network,mobile communication,digital video broadcasting,mobile computing,indexing terms,routing,protocols,mobility,multicast
Source-specific multicast,Mobile computing,Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service,Computer science,Xcast,Quality of service,Computer network,Pragmatic General Multicast,Heterogeneous network,Multicast,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1930-529X
978-1-4244-4148-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Susana Sargento159398.34
David Wagner200.68
José Rocha321.59
Fabio Mitrano400.34
J. Gozdecki5909.49
Jens Mödeker663.25