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Journal Papers

  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "Context-Aware Handoff Middleware for Transparent Service Continuity in Wireless Networks", Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Elsevier Science, Vol. 3, No. 4, pages 439-466, Aug. 2007.
  • P. Bellavista, M. Cinque, D. Cotroneo, L. Foschini, "Self-Adaptive Handoff Management for Mobile Streaming Continuity", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Communications Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, pages 80-94, Jun. 2009. New!

Conference Papers

  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "MUM: a Middleware for the Provisioning of Continuous Services to Mobile Users", Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'04), Alexandria, Egypt, June 29-31, 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "MUMOC: an Active Infrastructure for Open Video Caching", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Distributed Frameworks for Multimedia Applications (DFMA'05), Besançon, France, February 6-9, 2005, IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "Java-based Proactive Buffering for Multimedia Streaming Continuity in the Wireless Internet", poster paper in the Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'05), Taormina, Italy, June 13-16, 2005, IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "Application-level Middleware to Proactively Manage Handoff in Wireless Internet Multimedia", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'05), Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005, Springer Verlag.
  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "Proactive Management of Distributed Buffers for Streaming Continuity in Wired-Wireless Integrated Networks", Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'06), Vancouver, Canada, April 3-7, 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Workshop Papers

  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "Integrated Support for Handoff Management and Context Awareness in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC'05), held in conjunction with Middleware 2005, Grenoble, France, Novermber 28-December 2, 2005, ACM Press.
  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "SIP-Based Proactive Handoff Management for Session Continuity in the Wireless Internet", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI'06), held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems (ICDCS'06), Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, L. Foschini, "Effective Adaptation Decisions based on Context-aware Proactive Handoff for Mobile Multimedia Continuity Maintenance", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN'09), held in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09), pages 48-53, Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Referred Papers

  • [ComMag01] M.S. Corson, J.P. Macker, V.D. Park, "Mobile and Wireless Internet Services: Putting the Pieces Together", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 6, 2001.
  • [WComm03] N. Banerjee, W. Wei, S.K. Das, "Mobility support in wireless Internet", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, No.5, 2003.
  • [JSAC99] P. Ramanathan, K.M. Sivalingam, P. Agrawal, and S. Kishore, "Dynamic Re-source Allocation Schemes during Handoff for Mobile Multimedia Wireless Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 17, No. 7, Jul. 1999.
  • [MulJou98] C. Aurrecoechea, A.T. Campbell, L. Hauw, "A Survey of QoS Architectures", ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1998.
  • [MulMag04] J. Jin, K. Nahrstedt, "QoS Specification Languages for Distributed Multimedia Applications: A Survey and Taxonomy", IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2004.
  • [PersComm00] K. Pahlavan, P. Krishnamurthy, A. Hatami, M. Ylianttila, J.P. Makela, R. Pichna, J. Vallstron, "Handoff in hybrid mobile data networks", IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2000.
  • [WComm02_2] T.T. Kwon, M. Gerla, S. Das, "Mobility management for VoIP service: Mobile IP vs. SIP", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 9, No.5, 2002.
  • [WComm03] N. Banerjee, W. Wei, S.K. Das, "Mobility support in wireless Internet", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, No.5, 2003.
  • [MC2R00] H. Schulzrinne, E. Wedlund, "Application-layer mobility using SIP", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2000.
  • [WComm05] W. Wei, N. Banerjee, K. Basu, S.K. Das, "SIP-based vertical handoff between WWANs and WLANs", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No.3, 2005.
  • [MONET98] M. Stemm, R.H. Katz., "Vertical Handoff in Wireless Overlay Networks", Klu-wer Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 3, No.4, 1998.
  • [Net04] D. Saha et al., "Mobility Support in IP: a Survey of Related Protocols", IEEE Network, Vol. 18, No. 6, 2004.
  • [WComm04] J. McNair, Z. Fang, "Vertical handoffs in fourth-generation multinetwork environments", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No.3, 2004.
  • [ICC04_3] H. Velayos, G. Karlsson, "Techniques to Reduce IEEE 802.11b Handoff Time", IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), (Vol. 7), 2004.
  • [CCR03] A. Mishra, M. Shin, W. Arbaugh, "An Empirical Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC Layer Handoff Process", ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, Apr. 2003.
  • [WComm02] A.T. Campbell et al., "Comparison of IP Micromobility Protocols", IEEE Wire-less Communications, Vol. 9, No.1, 2002.
  • [JSAC04_2] C. Guo, Z. Guo, Q. Zhang, W. Zhu, "A Seamless and Proactive End-to-End Mobility Solution for Roaming Across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", IEEE Jour. on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 22, No. 5, 2004.
  • [CCNC05_2] D. Lee; C. Lee; J.W. Kim, "Seamless media streaming over mobile IP-enabled wireless LAN", IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2005.
  • [Net06] N. Banerjee, S.K. Das, A. Acharya, "Seamless SIP-Based Mobility for Multimedia Applications", IEEE Network, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2006.
  • [QShine05] L. Chen, G. Yang, T. Sun, M.Y. Sanadidi, M. Gerla, "Enhancing QoS Support for Vertical Handoffs Using Implicit/Explicit Handoff Notifications", IEEE Int. Conf. on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), 2005.
  • [MobiQuitous05] A. Dutta, T. Zhang, Y. Ohba, K. Taniuchi, H. Shulzrinne, "MPA assisted Optimezed Proactive Handoff Scheme", IEEE Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiqui-tous Systems (MobiQuitous), 2005.
  • [ICC03] N. Nakajima, A. Dutta, S. Das, H. Schulzrinne, "Handoff delay analysis and measurement for SIP based mobility in IPv6", IEEE Int. Conf. on Communica-tions (ICC), (Vol. 2), 2003.
  • [INFOCOM03] R. Hsieh, Z.G. Zhou, A. Seneviratne, "S-MIP: a seamless handoff archi-tecture for mobile IP", Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), (Vol.3), 2003.
  • [ComComm04] S. Balasubramaniam, J. Indulska, "Vertical Handover Supporting Pervasive Computing in Future Wireless Networks", Elsevier Computer Communica-tion, Vol. 27, No. 8, 2004.
  • [ISCC06] P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, C. Giannelli, "Evaluating Filtering Strategies for Decen-tralized Handover Prediction in the Wireless Internet", IEEE Int. Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2006.
  • [JGS89] J.L. Deng, "Introduction to Grey Theory", The Journal of Grey System, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1989.
  • [SLS03] D. Goderis et al., "Service Level Specification Semantics and Parameters", draft-tequila-sls-03.txt, work in progress.
  • [MobiSys04] M. Shin, A. Mishra, W.A. Arbaugh, "Improving the Latency of 802.11 Handoffs using Neighbor Graphs", ACM Int. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2004.
  • [TMC05] C. Chou, K.G. Shin, "An Enhanced Inter-Access Point Protocol for Uniform Intra and Intersubnet Handoffs", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2005.
  • [LCN00] S. Baatz, M. Frank, R. Gopffarth, D. Kassatkine, P. Martini, M. Scheteilg, and A. Vilavaara, "Handoff support for mobility with IP over Bluetooth", IEEE Int. Conf. on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2000
  • [ICPPW02] S. Chung, H. Yoon, J. Cho, "A fast handoff scheme for IP over Bluetooth", Int. Conf. on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), 2002.
  • [SMC05] M. Chen, J. Chen, P. Yao, "Efficient handoff algorithm for Bluetooth networks", IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005.
  • [WPersComm97] S. Seshan, H. Balakrishnan, R.H. Katz, "Handoffs in Cellular Wireless Networks: The Daedalus Implementation and Experience", Kluwer Wireless Per-sonal Communications, Vol.4, No.2, 1997.
  • [JSAC04] S. Sharma, N. Zhu, T. Chiueh, "Low-Latency Mobile IP Handoff for Infrastruc-ture-Mode Wireless LANs", IEEE Jour. on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 23, No. 11, 2005.
  • [INFOCOM98 ] D.A. Maltz, P. Bhagwat, "MSOCKS: an Architecture for Transport Layer Mobility", IEEE INFOCOM, Vol. 3, 1998.
  • [Mobicom00] A.C. Snoeren, H. Balakrishnan, "An end-to-end approach to host mobility", ACM Int. Conf. On Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2000.
  • [ANWIRE04] L. Chen, T. Sun, B. Chen, V. Rajendran, M. Gerla, "A Smart Decision Model for Vertical Handoff", Int. Work. on Wireless Internet and Reconfigurability (AN-WIRE), 2004.
  • [MobiSys03] R. Bragodia et alii (sono 11), "iMASH: Interactive Mobile Application Session Handoff", ACM Int. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Mo-biSys), 2003.
  • [A/VCORBA] Audio/Visual Stream Specification 1.0, OMG (2000).

M.Sc. Thesis (in italian)

  • Roberto Luciani, "Middleware Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Multimedia Content Adaptation", Tesi di Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento, Bologna, 2006. [PDF]
  • Roberto Pantieri , "Seamless multimedia streaming service handoff in Wi-Fi networks", Tesi di Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Luca Renzi , "Proxy-based Support for Audio Streaming Services in Bluetooth Network ", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Antonio Vicciantuoni, "Design and Development of an Infrastructure for User and Terminal Profiling", Tesi di Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Luca Monaco, "Terminal Profile-based Online Multimedia Services Adaptation", Tesi di Laurea di Secondo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Valerio Galantini, "Service Path Reconfiguration for Multimedia Content Delivery Services", Tesi di Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento, Bologna, 2004. [PDF]
  • Luca Foschini, "Multimedia Streaming Management Over Wired and Wireless Networks", Tesi di Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento, Bologna, 2003. [PDF]

B.Sc. Thesis (in italian)

  • Veljko Vuković, "Vertical Handoff Management Support for Multimedia Services ", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Giuseppe Miniello, "Middleware Support for Monitoring and Management of Heterogeneous Wireless Channels ", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Elisabetta Visciotti , "SIP-based Terminal Handoff Management", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Matteo Tommaso Petri , "Proxy Buffering and Buffer Movement to Support Roaming Devices", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Diego Pierangeli, "Client Buffering for Continuous Streaming Support During Wi-Fi Handoffs", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Marco Passerini, "Proxy-based Load-balancing for Broadcast Streaming Services", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Emanuele Gruppioni, "JMF RealTime Streaming Protocol Evaluation", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Simone Lanzoni, "Caching strategies for prefix caching", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2005. [PDF]
  • Vittoria Caranna, "Streaming towards devices with very limited capabilities and frequent disconnections", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2004. [PDF]
  • Massimo Manarini, "Multimedia Streaming Libraries for Java", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2004. [PDF]
  • Paolo Battarra, "RTP/RTCP streaming monitoring" , Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2003. [PDF]
  • Vincenzo Borelli, "Distributed Caching for Presentation Metadata", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2003. [PDF]
  • Simone Bertorelli, "Local Video Stream Caching", Tesi di Laurea di Primo Livello, Bologna, 2003. [PDF]

Code documentation

Please refer to the code the Source Code page.

 

 

 

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