Self-adaptive handoff management for mobile streaming continuity

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 80-94

  Bellavista, P ^a   Cinque, M ^b   Cotroneo, D ^b   Foschini, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Resource management, handoff management, quality of service, wireless networks, multimedia streaming

Indexed keywords

HANDOFF MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MEDIA STREAMING; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TUNING;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 75149163866     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2009.090602     Document Type: Article

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