Fast and scalable handoffs for wireless internetworks
MobiCom '96 Proceedings of the 2nd annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
LARA: A Prototype System for Supporting High Performance Active Networking
IWAN '99 Proceedings of the First International Working Conference on Active Networks
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This paper presents novel solutions to some of the QoS problems associated with delay sensitive multimedia applications in next generation mobile environments. Based upon a set of requirements drawn from mobile multimedia applications, we speculate that the emerging field of active networking can help address these QoS issues. We introduce a set of active software components which, when executed on active network routers, are capable of significantly reducing network handoff times for mobile devices. This paper also documents the innovative component-based active network architecture used to support and develop the QoS enhancing components described above. Finally, we demonstrate the flexible and extensible properties of the active router design through a detailed description of the workings of the components described above.