The study of mobile Internet telephony

Author

Chen, Chyi-Nan ; Lin, Ching-Ta ; Zuan, Juan-Min ; Liu, Chung-Fann

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

183

Abstract

We attempt to integrate the technology of VoIP (voice over IP) and mobile computing together so that a mobile Internet telephony system (MVoIP) can be built on an integrated roaming environment of different networks. In order to support the mobility of the system, the handset of the MVoIP system should have multiple adapters, which have different communication area coverage ranges. The adapters should be given the ability to be used in a complementary fashion. The adapters used in this paper are those for an Ethernet, a wireless local area network and a cellular telephone network. The inherited problems with VoIP are not addressed, but the new problems with MVoIP are emphasized. These new problems are: (1) how to use the adapters in a complementary way so that the mobile area can be as large as possible, and (2) how to reduce the time delay of handoff so that the voice transmission can be smooth. The solutions for solving these two problems are described in detail

Keywords

Internet telephony; delays; mobile communication; mobile computing; telephone sets; wireless LAN; Ethernet; cellular telephone network; communication area coverage range; complementary usage; handoff; integrated roaming environment; integrated technology; mobile Internet telephony system; mobile area size; mobile computing; mobile voice over IP; multiple adapters; smooth voice transmission; telephone handset; time delay; wireless local area network; Cellular networks; Computer networks; Delay effects; Ethernet networks; Internet telephony; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Roaming; Telephone sets; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0933-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSE.2000.897209

Filename

897209