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Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia, Second Edition
Name of the mechanism which takes place when a user is roaming.
Published in Chapter:
Mobility Prediction for Multimedia Services
Damien Charlet (INRIA-Rocquencourt (ARLES Project), France), Frédéric Lassabe (University of Franche-Comté, France), Philippe Canalda (University of Franche-Comté, France), Pascal Chatonnay (University of Franche-Comté, France), and François Spies (University of Franche-Comté, France)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-046-2.ch066
Abstract
Advances in technology have enabled a proliferation of mobile devices and a broad spectrum of novel and out breaking solutions for new applications and services. In the present, more and more people and companies are demanding mobile access to multimedia services such as real-time rich media. Today, it is necessary to be able to predict adaptation behaviour which concerns and addresses not only the mobile usage or the infrastructure availability, but the service quality especially the continuity of service. Our chapter provides insight to new challenges of mobile multimedia services and applications: Wifi indoor positioning system adapted to heterogeneous building, static and learning mobility prediction, predictive handover policy for multimedia cache management, mobile multimedia guide (such as museum), and network scalability.
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Performance of Mobility Protocols
Handoff is the transition for any user’s signal transmission from one base station to a geographically adjacent base station as the user moves around.
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Mobility Support in 4G Heterogeneous Networks for Interoperable M-Health Devices
Handoff (or handover) is the process used in cellular systems to transfer a call between base stations when link quality decreases due to the mobility of cellular phones to obtain a better service.
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Mobility within Rich Multimedia Services
Name of the mechanism that takes place when a user is roaming.
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