This article outlines the challenges of IP multicast over Mobile IP. Then it provides a
comprehensive overview of existing multicast solutions to handle mobile sources and …

Media streaming in mobile environments is becoming more and more important with the
proliferation of 3G technologies and the popularity of online media services such as news …

This book provides a common framework for mobility management that considers the
theoretical and practical aspects of systems optimization for mobile networks. In this book …

Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) includes a multimedia
multicast/broadcast service (MBS), but delay-sensitive applications such as video and audio …

Proxies can improve the quality of service (QoS) of clients in the three-tier networking
architecture. However, it is more complicated to apply the server-proxy-client networking …

There are many efforts to adapt streaming services to wireless mobile networks. It is hard to
assure the QoS of the streaming services in wireless mobile networks because a terminal …

Privacy might be the greatest barrier to the long-term success of pervasive or ubiquitous
computing (ubicomp). The invisibility of embedded computing devices has made it easier to …

Streaming video to mobile users is rapidly emerging as a crucial multimedia service. One of
the stumbling blocks in mobile streaming is the heterogeneity found in mobile devices …

It is known that multicasting is an efficient method of supporting group communication as it
allows the transmission of packets to multiple destinations using fewer network resources …

In this paper we present an efficient scheme for the multicast transmission of the data in the
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). We take advantage of the tree …