Mobile Multimedia Networking


            With information access becoming part of everyday life, mobile multimedia environments are increasingly essential to cater to the needs of mobile users.  Present-day information access invariably involves multimedia data in some form or other.  Hence, mobile multimedia networks are becoming popular.  There is a need for efficient mapping of the requirements of multimedia systems onto mobile networking environments. This involves developing network protocol features that can handle widespread mobility of the clients as well as the fluctuating network characteristics.  Mobile communication systems might have to dynamically re-route set of multimedia information flows associated with a mobile client, from one base station to another in a timely manner, without significant interruption and change in the Quality-of -Service (QoS). Technically, QoS refers to an aggregation of system performance metrics. The five most important of these are:

  • Availability
  • Throughput
  • Packet Loss
  • Latency
  • Jitter

 

Also, multimedia systems have to become adaptive or scalable, with respect to the fluctuating network environments.  This project focuses on the issues concerning mobile networking environments for multimedia systems.

Topics of Interest:

  • QoS issues in mobile and fixed wireless networks
  • Fixed Wireless and Mobile network architectures
  • Mobile multimedia network protocols
  • Admission control, resource management in mobile networks
  • QoS adaptive transport layer issues
  • Network management, resource control methodologies for mobile computing
  • Wireless access to MPLS or IPOA-based network support for multimedia applications
  • Adaptive/scalable multimedia applications for mobile computing environments
  • Mobile multimedia applications: Issues, Systems designs, Performance

Related Papers Books & Presentations:

·         M. Kavehrad, A. Hurson, “Multimedia Systems, Mobile Computing and Global Information Sharing,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 108 pp., November 2001.

·         G. Cao and M. Singhal, "An Adaptive Distributed Channel Allocation Strategy for Mobile Cellular Networks," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Mobile Computing, Vol.  60, No. 4, pp. 451-473, April 2000.

·         G. Cao and M. Singhal, "Efficient Distributed Channel Allocation for Cellular Networks," Computer Communications, 23(10), pp. 950-961, May 2000.

·         K. Akhavan, S. Farahvash, M. Kavehrad, N. Mehravari " QoS Provisioning for Wireless ATM by Variable-Rate Coding," Proceedings of WCNC'99, New Orleans, USA, September 1999.

·         B. Prabhakaran , M. Kavehrad, "Mobile Computing Environments for Mutimedia Systems," Kluwer Academic Publishers, 116 pp., July 1999.

·         C. Chehadeh, A. Hurson and M. Kavehrad, "Object Organization on a Single Broadcast Channel in a Mobile Computing Environment," Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on  Mobile Computing Environment for Multimedia Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, July 1999.

·         Object  Organization on  Broadcast  Channels in a Mobile Computing  Environment: Time and  Space  Efficiency

·         G. Cao and M. Singhal, "On Coordinated Checkpointing in Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 9, no.12, pp. 1213-1225, Dec. 1998.

·         A. Hurson, C. Chehadeh, L. Miller, "Object Organization on a Single Broadcast Channel in a Global Information Sharing Environment," IEEE Proceedings of 24th Euromicro Conference; Workshop on Network Computing , August 1998.

·         J. Metzner, "Efficient Replicated Remote File Comparison," IEEE Transactions on Computers, No.- 40, May 1991.

·         I. Habbab, M. Kavehrad and C-E. Sundberg, " ALOHA with Capture Over Slow and Fast Fading Radio Channels with Coding and Diversity," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1989, pp. 79-88 and Globecom Proceedings, Japan, December 1987.

 

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