Multicast mobility in SIP layer

Author

Yang, Xiuxia ; Agarwal, Anjali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

17-19 May 2004

Firstpage

2667

Abstract

Wireless mobility had been the topic of research and development due to the popular use of portable computers. Multicast applications for mobile hosts have been considered recently. This paper first introduces the previous work related to multicast mobility and presents some issues that exist in IP multicast mobility. We propose a new method for, multicast mobility in the session initiation protocol (SIP) layer and discuss how mobile SIP with multicast deals with these issues for multicast communication in the IP layer. The paper also describes the structure of the SIP multicast mobility that is independent of the IP layer and extends SIP functions to support SIP multicast mobility. The proposed method avoids problems exiting in the IP multicast mobility by shifting the concept of multicasting and mobility from IP layer to session and application layers.

Keywords

IP networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; multicast protocols; IP multicast mobility; SIP layer multicast mobility; application layer; hand-off; portable computers; session initiation protocol; wireless mobility; Application software; Convergence; Home automation; Mobile computing; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Portable computers; Proposals; Tunneling; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC 2004-Spring. 2004 IEEE 59th

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8255-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2004.1391404

Filename

1391404