Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated Web service
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Application-layer mobility using SIP
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
A Distributed Proxy Server System for Wireless Mobile Web Service
ICOIN '01 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Information Networking
Extended Internet caching protocol: a foundation for building ubiquitous Web caching
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Handoff Trigger Nodes for Hybrid IEEE 802.11 WLAN/Cellular Networks
QSHINE '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks
Optimal proxy cache allocation for efficient streaming media distribution
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Caching strategies in transcoding-enabled proxy systems for streaming media distribution networks
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Composable proxy services to support collaboration on the mobile Internet
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Handover management for mobile nodes in IPv6 networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multicasting streaming media to mobile users
IEEE Communications Magazine
Streaming for vehicular users via elastic proxy buffer management
IEEE Communications Magazine
Low-latency mobile IP handoff for infrastructure-mode wireless LANs
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
An efficient anycast scheme for discovering K services in mobile ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 5th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
MSN'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
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Proxies can improve the quality of service (QoS) of clients in the three-tier networking architecture. However, it is more complicated to apply the server-proxy-client networking architecture to mobile networks for multimedia streaming because mobile clients possess the "keeping moving” characteristic. Therefore, the three-tier architecture in mobile networks must take user mobility into consideration, i.e., mobile clients should be able to switch to a proxy dynamically. In this paper, Application-layer Proxy Handoff (APH) is defined to have applications be executed smoothly when mobile clients move in the server-proxy-client architecture. First, APH employs application-layer anycast to select one of the candidate proxies as the next proxy based on 1) the network condition between the mobile client and each candidate proxy and 2) the load balance among the candidate proxies. Second, APH utilizes IPv6 multicast to switch the session from the original proxy to the next proxy smoothly and to forward the available cache unsent in the original proxy to the next proxy for keeping the original session continuous.