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User-centric mobility management for multimedia content access

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Current mobility protocols and architectures are mainly targeted to devices or applications and they usually lack the ability to support user-centric paradigms; moreover, they usually face a single aspect of the problem, i.e., terminal handover or session mobility. Full mobility support is only available to specific applications or protocols (e.g., SIP) but these approaches do not exploit all facilities for movement detection at the network/link layers and do not allow to use the same framework for different applications. This paper proposes a generic mobility framework for terminal handover and session migration. It pursues the user-centric paradigm and builds a cross-layer architecture, yielding to a high level of generality, applicability and flexibility. Unlike other approaches, it does not require any modification in correspondent peers and works with a minimal network infrastructure. Software implementations are described for two representative real-time multimedia applications, i.e., media streaming and interactive conference. The effectiveness of the framework was analyzed by means of both performance measurements in local and Internet testbeds and user evaluation during a live demo conducted at a national science exhibition.

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  1. The same concept could also be extended to content in the context of Content Centric Networking; we are going to face this topic in the future.

  2. Actually, the user identifier may be a structure including information for different networks (see, for example, Chapter 15 in [17].)

  3. The idea of using a fixed IP for each user is not feasible in IPv4, which currently lacks addresses for devices, although it would be possible in IPv6. However, to maintain the approach as general as possible, we keep in mind the limitations of IPv4 and think at the PA as a dynamic address.

  4. Obviously, the hosts migrating the session must share the same secret material requested by MIP security mechanisms.

  5. We will consider the possibility of designing an independent protocol in our next releases.

  6. The two local terminals may have different capabilities. The presence of the Adaptation on the Home Agent would take care of adaptation and transcoding, if needed.

  7. http://www.resiprocate.org

  8. http://dynamics.sourceforge.net/

  9. http://www.videolan.org/

  10. No evidence of any experimental setup are even found in [16, 19].

  11. http://www.festivalscienza.eu

  12. Both methods require a response, although it is not shown in Fig. 18.

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The authors would like to thanks Stefano Chessa and his staff at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa for their invaluable help in providing the localization by the sensor network framework used in the live demo. The authors would also like to thanks the psychologist Ludovica Primavera for her assistance in preparing and analyzing the questionnaires for the user evaluation.

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    Raffaele Bolla & Riccardo Rapuzzi

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    Matteo Repetto

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Bolla, R., Rapuzzi, R. & Repetto, M. User-centric mobility management for multimedia content access. Multimed Tools Appl 70, 267–295 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0827-9

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