Context-aware handoff middleware for service continuity in wireless networks

Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini

Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy Received 13 October 2006; received in revised form 6 April 2007; accepted 11 April 2007 Available online 4 May 2007

Motivation
Many wireless technology, BT AP, AP,3G. QoS requirements Move from one location to another location Wifi Handoff Service Continuity

Introduction
Mobile agent based Ubiquitous multimedia Middleware (MUM)

Context Aware Approach

Three important aspects of context are: where you are; who you are with; and what resources are nearby

MUM Architecture

Internal Architecture

Experiment Result
time-advance handoff prediction = time PHO time PH. the best for time advance handoff prediction: Horizontal Handoff: Mongo BT with Mogo BT : 4.986 s Vertical Handoff: Mongo BT with Intel Wifi : 5.019 s

Conclusion & Comparison

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