Abstract
Multimedia applications often involve multiple media types such as voice, text, video, and graphics. Many of these applications have low delay requirements and do not perform well under large delay conditions. To provide efficient support for mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless network connectivity, it is crucial that handoff delays are minimised. In this work, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of an architecture based on agent technology to minimise handoff delays. Our empirical results demonstrate that our proposed agent-based context transfer approach improves handoff delay performance by 54.8% compared to the traditional client/server context transfer approach which performs handoffs by exchanging multiple messages.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 236-244 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements I am grateful for the financial support of the Wellcome Trust. the Medical Research Council and Ciba-Geigy Ltd: Jacqui Badcock, Jenny Copeland, Margaret McNurlan, Mr. George Mann and Dr. Richard Bird have all contributed to this review paper. Further results are in press.
Keywords
- Context transfer
- Handoff
- MA
- Mobile agent
- Mobile computing
- Wireless
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications