SMiLE-Session Mobility in mobiLe Environments

  • Authors:

  • Günther Hölbling;Wolfgang Pfnür;Harald Kosch

  • Affiliations:

  • {hoelblin,pfnuer,kosch}@fim.uni-passau.de, Distributed Information Systems, University of Passau, Innstraße 43, Passau, Germany;{hoelblin,pfnuer,kosch}@fim.uni-passau.de, Distributed Information Systems, University of Passau, Innstraße 43, Passau, Germany;{hoelblin,pfnuer,kosch}@fim.uni-passau.de, Distributed Information Systems, University of Passau, Innstraße 43, Passau, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 conference on New Trends in Multimedia and Network Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Nowadays most people own several devices, like a notebook or a smartphone, for satisfying their mobility and flexibility needs. Without special arrangements a program, its execution state and saved files-the latter two are commonly called “session”-are confined to a physical host. Session Mobility enables the user to break this law of locality, and instead creates a relation between the session and himself. In this paper we present a novel system for supporting session mobility in various scenarios. To support an almost automatic session handover between different devices a mobile agent system has been used. The selection of target devices has also been automated based on the usage context, the device's capabilities and a rough estimation of the actual location. Based on the Session Mobility in mobiLe Environments platform (SMiLE) a use case has been realized where a video session is migrated from a notebook to a smartphone and vice versa.