Session Splice on Multimedia Communication for Mobile Computing

Authors:
Tzu-Chi Huang;Ce-Kuen Shieh;Wen-Huang Lai;Yu-Ben Miao
Affiliations:
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
Venue:
SUTC '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing - Vol 2 - Workshops - Volume 02
Year:
2006

Citing 0
Cited 1

Client-side session splice approach, a novel approach to achieving seamless handoffs for multimedia applications in mobile computing

Wireless Networks

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Playing multimedia data with mobile devices is the trend in mobile computing. However, roaming around networks has the session continuity problem because of Internet routing fundamentals. We propose the session splice on multimedia communication for session continuity. It has following advantages: 1) operating without Mobile IP nor the triangular route problem, 2) leaving applications unchanged to keep the compatibility, 3) having no need to deploy external proxies, and 4) hiding movements from applications so applications or users do not need to rejoin sessions at the communication handoff. We implement the session splice in Windows 2000/XP and have experiments to show that the session splice with the negligible overhead can conserve home network bandwidth and maintain stable variation of packet round trip time.