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Supporting mobility in an IMS-based P2P IPTV service: A proactive context transfer mechanism

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Supporting mobility in an IMS-based P2P IPTV service: A proactive context transfer mechanism
In recent years, IPTV has received an increasing amount of interest from the industry, commercial providers and the research community, alike. In this context, standardization bodies, such as ETSI and ITU-T, are specifying the architecture of IPTV systems based on IP multicast. An interesting alternative to support the IPTV service delivery relies on the peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm to distribute and push the streaming effort towards the network edge. However, while P2P IPTV was studied in fixed access technologies, there has been little attention paid to the implications arising in mobile environments. One of these involves the service handover when the user moves to a different network. By analyzing previous work from the perspective of an IPTV service, we concluded that a proactive approach is necessary for the handling of inter-network handovers. In this paper, we propose a new general handover mechanism for the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), while studying its applicability to a P...
Iván Vidal, Jaime García-Reinoso, An
Added 09 Dec 2010
Updated 09 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where COMCOM
Authors Iván Vidal, Jaime García-Reinoso, Antonio de la Oliva, Alex Bikfalvi, Ignacio Soto
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