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Seamless Multimedia Handoff for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6

Authors:
Khaled Zeraoulia
Nadjib Badache

Keywords: Seamless handover; HMIPv6; multimedia applications.

Abstract:
The majority of today’s multimedia applications and content reside on the Internet. Since the Internet Protocol (IP) is the “glue” that holds the Internet together, there is enormous interest in extending IP to mobile multimedia networks. Handover is one of the most important factors that may degrade the performance of real-time applications in mobile multimedia networks. In this paper, we introduce a novel mobility management strategy for mobile IP networks, in which we develop a seamless handover scheme called SHMIPv6 (Seamless Multimedia handoff for hierarchical Mobile IPv6). By integrating MAC and Network layer handovers efficiently, SHMIPV6 can significantly reduce the system signaling cost and handover delay. Also, our performance study shows that SHMIPv6 achieves loss-free packet delivery using an anticipated buffering scheme.

Pages: 249 to 253

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: June 19, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4219

ISBN: 978-1-61208-140-3

Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Dates: from June 19, 2011 to June 24, 2011