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A framework for the transmission of streaming media to mobile devices
Author(s) -
Curran Kevin,
Parr Gerard
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.420
Subject(s) - computer science , computer network , handover , transmission (telecommunications) , base station , terminal (telecommunication) , mobile ip , mobile device , wireless , extension (predicate logic) , telecommunications , world wide web , programming language
One interesting problem is the delay imposed upon mobile receivers when switching between wireless cells. We provide a solution to this in the form of an extension of Mobile IP's handoff algorithm. Our solution involves the exploitation of mobility prediction to predict a mobile terminal's future location based on its previous history (i.e. the last cell that it has been in) and for the media stream to be already present and cached by next cells base station ready for receiving by the mobile device. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.