Title: Efficient QoS-based mobile multicast
using context transfer
Authors: Ilka Miloucheva, Olaf Menzel, Karl Jonas
Abstract: With the rapid advances in multimedia content delivery
technologies, there is an increasing challenge for efficient Quality of Service
(QoS) based multicast transport in mobile Internet environment. This paper
discusses architectural approach for provision of multicast services in
heterogeneous mobile IPv6 environment using context transfer. Following issues
of QoS based mobile multicast transport are addressed: - Application of context
transfer between access routers for seamless handover of active multicast
services; - Adaptation of multicast group management and routing designed for
wired IPv6 infrastructures to heterogeneous mobile environment; - Candidate
access router discovery and context aware user interfaces for optimised
handover; - Reliable mobile multicast for content delivery supported by context
transfer at access routers; - Distributed QoS management of multicast services
in heterogeneous mobile environment. The work is part of the mobile architecture
developed in the EU IST project DAIDALOS.