Wireless Communications and Networks
Wireless Communications and Networks
An empirical analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer handoff process
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Application-Level QoS Control for Video-on-Demand
IEEE Internet Computing
MUM: a middleware for the provisioning of continuous services to mobile users
ISCC '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC"04) - Volume 02
Comparison of IP micromobility protocols
IEEE Wireless Communications
Hierarchical analysis of RealMedia streaming traffic on an IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN
Computer Communications
Mobile and wireless Internet services: putting the pieces together
IEEE Communications Magazine
Quality-of-service signaling for next-generation IP-based mobile networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Dynamic resource allocation schemes during handoff for mobile multimedia wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Mobility support in IP: a survey of related protocols
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Integrated support for handoff management and context awareness in heterogeneous wireless networks
MPAC '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing
Context-aware handoff middleware for transparent service continuity in wireless networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
The Journal of Supercomputing
Meeting Interactivity Requirements in Mobile E-Witness: An Experimental Study
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
The multimedia service session handoff method in heterogeneous wireless networks
International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
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New deployment scenarios tend to consider the requirement of session continuity for service provisioning, especially multimedia streaming, to limited heterogeneous portable devices roaming among wireless localities. In particular, multimedia streaming should not experience any interruption while clients roam in wired-wireless integrated networks based on the standard best-effort Internet. The paper proposes an application-level middleware approach to proactively overcome Wi-Fi handoff and maintain multimedia session continuity in the wireless Internet by exploiting mobile proxies running on the wired network. Mobile middleware proxies locally support resource-limited clients, avoid packet losses during handoffs, pre-fetch local buffers with multimedia contents before handoff occurrence, and possibly reconfigure/renegotiate ongoing sessions after handoffs. Experimental results show that, notwithstanding the application-level implementation, mobile proxies can avoid streaming discontinuities with good efficiency in wireless-wired integrated networks even if their pro-activity is based on simple and lightweight handoff prediction techniques.