Mobile Proxies for Proactive Buffering in Wireless Internet Multimedia Streaming

The widespread popularity of roaming wireless devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities is enabling new challenging deployment scenarios for multimedia streaming in wired-wireless integrated networks. Streaming services should consider not only the support of different forms of mobility and connectivity, but also runtime service personalization based on client characteristics and location, while possibly maintaining streaming continuity independently of client roaming. The paper proposes an original middleware solution based on mobile proxies that work at the wired-wireless network edges, close to their limited wireless clients, to support their personalized access to continuous services, especially by pre-fetching multimedia contents to avoid streaming interruptions. In particular, the paper focuses on how to exploit handover prediction i) to migrate mobile proxies in advance to the wireless cells where mobile clients are going to reconnect, and ii) to proactively manage mo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICDCSW
• Authors: Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Handover Prediction, ICDCSW 2005, Mobile Proxies, Mobile Proxy Buffers