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Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 1021-1032, 2005

DOI: 10.1007/11557654_113

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Adaptive Buffering-Based on Handoff Prediction for Wireless Internet Continuous Services

Proceedings article published in 2005 by Paolo Bellavista ORCID, Antonio Corradi ORCID, Carlo Giannelli
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Abstract

New challenging deployment scenarios are accommodating portable devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities that roam among wireless access localities during service provisioning. That calls for novel middlewares to support different forms of mobility and connectivity in wired-wireless inte- grated networks, to provide runtime service personalization based on client characteristics, preferences, and location, and to maintain service continuity notwithstanding temporary disconnections due to handoff. The paper focuses on how to predict client horizontal handoff between IEEE 802.11 cells in a portable way, only by exploiting RSSI monitoring and with no need of external global positioning, and exploits mobility prediction to preserve audio/video streaming continuity. In particular, handoff prediction permits to dynamically and proactively adapt the size of client-side buffers to avoid streaming interrup- tions with minimum usage of portable device memory. Experimental results show that our prediction-based adaptive buffering outperforms traditional static solutions by significantly reducing the buffer size required for streaming conti- nuity and by imposing a very limited overhead.