Handover of media streams with network coding

Nowadays streaming media traffic has a significant share of the mobile data volume. In this paper we focus on the handover process of streaming media connections and propose a solution that improves the user experience by providing a resilient handover scheme. According to our proposal, before the mobile subscriber joins the new attachment point, the information is proactively distributed there, using network coding. Therefore the subscriber is able to collect the packets combined at the old and new attachment points. The method was evaluated by means of simulation.