APPLICATION LEVEL SESSION HAND-OFF MANAGEMENT IN A UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT

Letian Rong, Ian Burnett

2004

Abstract

This paper focuses on one of the most important aspects of user mobility in a ubiquitous mobile environment: application session hand-off management. Here we use the term Session Mobility to define the ability of handling application session hand-offs among mobile devices. The paper summarizes the current research in the field and addresses the important facets and the missing “ingredients” of these treatments. We then propose an architecture to support and manage application session transfers based on the MPEG-21 multimedia framework. This takes advantage of Digital Items and adaptation metadata to provide a standards-based approach to the problem. Finally, we validated our framework using a test-bed which provides for dynamic multimedia adaptation.

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in Harvard Style

Rong L. and Burnett I. (2004). APPLICATION LEVEL SESSION HAND-OFF MANAGEMENT IN A UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 223-229. DOI: 10.5220/0001394602230229


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icete04,
author={Letian Rong and Ian Burnett},
title={APPLICATION LEVEL SESSION HAND-OFF MANAGEMENT IN A UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={223-229},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001394602230229},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,
TI - APPLICATION LEVEL SESSION HAND-OFF MANAGEMENT IN A UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Rong L.
AU - Burnett I.
PY - 2004
SP - 223
EP - 229
DO - 10.5220/0001394602230229