An Integrated Mobility Framework for Pervasive Communications

Pervasive communications are greatly affected by mobility issues. Users often move and that implies different devices and networks to become available dynamically. Terminal handovers and session migrations could negatively impact the enjoyment of multimedia content in such scenarios. In this paper, we introduce the concept of personal address and proposed a mobility framework around it, which accounts for all aspects of mobility. Moreover, we describe an implementation of this framework for interactive voice-over-IP and for streaming applications; finally, we report the results from our experimental testbed.