Seamless Handover for Multimedia Applications between Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Author

Lin, Hung-Wei ; Chu, Kuo-Chih ; Lee, Wei-Tsong ; Lin, Jim-Min

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Tamsui, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

985

Lastpage

988

Abstract

In recent years, the mobile equipments with powerful functions and convenient service feature are getting more and more popular. Those mobile equipments not only provide us many types of wireless network connections services but also with one of popular service which is video streaming. However, the most concerned problem is handover between networks during the video streaming transmission. So we propose a new algorithm based on IEEE 802.21 standard, which can dynamically adjust frame rate according to handover process in order to decrease the impact of handover. Finally, video stream can playback smoothly until end of handover procedure.

Keywords

IEEE standards; mobile computing; radio access networks; video streaming; IEEE 802.21 standard; buffer management; frame rate; heterogeneous wireless networks; mobile equipments; multimedia applications; seamless handover process; video streaming transmission; wireless network connections services; Buffer storage; Computer science; Delay effects; Intelligent networks; Middleware; Mobile computing; Power engineering and energy; Signal processing; Streaming media; Wireless networks; Buffer management; Frame rate control; Handover; IEEE 802.21;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, 2009. IIH-MSP '09. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4717-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3762-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2009.286

Filename

5337187