A streaming application for vertical handover testing in wireless hybrid access networks

Author

Popovici, Eduard C. ; Beganu, Tiberius P. ; Gavrilescu, Mihai ; Andrei, Valentin ; Fratu, Octavian ; Halunga, Simona V.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Dept., Politeh. Univ. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we describe a media streaming application build to test a system which implements the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) standard, for interoperability between wireless hybrid access networks. We evaluated the real-time performance of our vertical handover prototype system by means of the audio streaming continuity assessment. The current results proved only moderately performances, but they also showed us which components have to be improved. Further developments will address these improvements, and will extend the application with video streaming capabilities.

Keywords

audio streaming; mobility management (mobile radio); radio access networks; video streaming; IEEE 802.21 media independent handover standard; MIH standard; audio streaming continuity assessment; media streaming application; vertical handover testing; video streaming capability; wireless hybrid access networks; Bluetooth; Computer architecture; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media; Prototypes; Real time systems; Wireless communication; interoperability; media streaming; vertical handover; wireless hybrid access networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7486-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929365

Filename

5929365