Seamless Handover for IMS over Mobile-IPv6 Using Context Transfer

Mobility support for the next generation IPv6 networks has been one of the recent research issues due to the growing demand for wireless services over internet.In the other hand,3GPP has introduced IP Multimedia Subsystem as the next generation IP based infrastructure for wireless and wired multimedia services.In this paper we present two context transfer mechanisms based on predictive and reactive schemes,to support seamless handover in IMS over Mobile IPv6.Those schemes reduce handover latency by transferring appropriate session information between the old and the new access networks.Moreover,we present two methods for QoS parameters negotiations to preserve service quality along the mobile user movement path.The performances of the proposed mechanisms are evaluated by simulations.

Seamless handover between unicast and multicast multimedia streams

With the deployment of heterogeneous networks, mobile users are expecting ubiquitous connectivity when using applications. For bandwidth-intensive applications such as Internet Protocol Television(IPTV), multimedia contents are typically transmitted using a multicast delivery method due to its bandwidth efficiency. However, not all networks support multicasting. Multicasting alone could lead to service disruption when the users move from a multicast-capable network to a non-multicast network. In this paper, we propose a handover scheme called application layer seamless switching(ALSS) to provide smooth real-time multimedia delivery across unicast and multicast networks. ALSS adopts a soft handover to achieve seamless playback during the handover period. A real-time streaming testbed is implemented to investigate the overall handover performance, especially the overlapping period where both network interfaces are receiving audio and video packets. Both the quality of service(QoS) and objective-mapped quality of experience(QoE) metrics are measured. Experimental results show that the overlapping period takes a minimum of 56 and 4 ms for multicast-to-unicast(M2U) and unicast-to-multicast(U2M) handover, respectively. The measured peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR) confirms that the frame-by-frame quality of the streamed video during the handover is at least 33 dB, which is categorized as good based on ITU-T recommendations. The estimated mean opinion score(MOS) in terms of video playback smoothness is also at a satisfactory level.

SWN: An SDN Based Framework for Carrier Grade WiFi Networks

With the rapid growth of mobile data traffic and vast traffic offloaded from cellular network, Wi-Fi has been considered as an essential component to cope with the tremendous growth of mobile data traffic. Although operators have deployed a lot of carrier grade Wi-Fi networks, but there are still a multitude of arrears for nowadays Wi-Fi networks, such as supporting seamless handover between APs, automatic network access and unified authentication, etc. In this paper, we propose an SDN based carrier grade Wi-Fi network framework, namely SWN. The key conceptual contribution of SWN is a principled refactoring of Wi-Fi networks into control and data planes. The control plane has a centralized global view of the whole network, can perceive the underlying network state by network situation awareness(NAS) technique, and bundles the perceived information and network management operations into northbound Application Programming Interface(API) for upper applications. In the data plane, we construct software access point(SAP) to abstract the connection between user equipment(UE) and access point(AP). Network operators can design network applications by utilizing these APIs and the SAP abstraction to configure and manage the whole network, which makes carrier grade Wi-Fi networks more flexible, user-friendly, and scalable.

Study on the Online Mode of Micro-Grid

Smooth switchover of micro-grid from parallel operation mode to island operation mode is a signif icant method to guarantee the continuous power supply to important loads.This paper puts forward an online work mode on the basis of analyzing the features of parallel operation mode and island operation mode.According to the features of online work mode,the paper gives a f ixed and unf ixed DC bus voltage control strategy and builds the simulation model of unf ixed DC bus voltage control strategy based on Matlab/Simulink.The simulation results show that online work mode based on the unf ixed DC bus voltage control strategy can avoid the unstable problem caused by handoff process between parallel mode and island mode,ensure uninterrupted power supply for important loads,and achieve maximum power tracking of photovoltaic power generation,in addition to reducing the complexity and cost of the system.