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Adaptive Buffering-Based on Handoff Prediction for Wireless Internet Continuous Services
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Track 18: Pervasive Computing and Communications
Adaptive Buffering-Based on Handoff Prediction for Wireless Internet Continuous Services
Paolo Bellavista1 , Antonio Corradi1 and Carlo Giannelli1 
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Dip. Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica - Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna, Italy |
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 integrated 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 interruptions 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 continuity and by imposing a very limited overhead.
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