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Computer Communications
Volume 27, Issue 8, May 2004, Pages 725-738
Advances in Future Mobile/Wireless Networks and Services
 
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Copyright © 2003 A. Dutta. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Realizing mobile wireless Internet telephony and streaming multimedia testbed

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A. Dutta Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, P. Agrawal a, S. Das a, M. Elaoud a, D. Famolari a, S. Madhani a, A. McAuley a, B. Kim a, P. Li a, M. Tauil a, S. Baba b, Y. Ohba b, T. Kodama b, N. Nakajima b, Jyh-Cheng Chen c and Henning Schulzrinne d

a Telcordia Technologies Inc., 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA

b Toshiba America Research Inc., Morristown, NJ 07960, USA

c Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

d Computer Science Department, Columbia University, New York, NJ 10027, USA


Received 23 October 2003; 
accepted 24 October 2003. 
Available online 26 November 2003.

Abstract

Streaming real-time multimedia content over the Internet is gaining momentum in the communications, entertainment, music and interactive game industries as well as in the military. In general, streaming applications include IP telephony, multimedia broadcasts and various interactive applications such as multi-party conferences, collaborations and multiplayer games. Successfully realizing such applications in a highly mobile environment, however, presents many research challenges. In order to investigate such challenges and demonstrate viable solutions, we have developed an experimental indoor and outdoor testbed laboratory. By implementing standard IETF protocols into this testbed, we have demonstrated the basic functionalities required of the mobile wireless Internet to successfully support mobile multimedia access. These requirements include signaling, registration, dynamic configuration, mobility binding, location management, Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA), and quality of service over a variety of radio access network (RAN) technologies (e.g. 802.11b, CDMA/GPRS). In this paper, we describe this testbed and discuss important design issues and tradeoffs. We detail the incorporation and inter-relation of a wide catalog of IETF protocols-such as SIP, SAP, SDP, RTP/RTCP/RTSP, MGCP, variants of Mobile-IP, DRCP, HMMP, PANA, and DSNP-to achieve our goals. We believe that the results and experiences obtained from this experimental testbed will advance the understanding of the pertinent deployment issues for a Mobile Wireless Internet.

Author Keywords: Author Keywords: Mobile; Internet telephony; Multimedia; Wireless Internet

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Testbed functional requirement
2.1. Signaling for the multimedia clients
2.2. Handoff
2.3. Dynamic configuration
2.4. Location management and registration
2.5. Mobility binding
2.6. Authentication, authorization and accounting
2.7. Security
3. Testbed architecture components
3.1. Hardware components
3.1.1. Mobile station
3.1.2. Base station (BS)
3.1.3. Radio access network
3.1.4. Base station controller (BSC)
3.1.5. ERC (Edge router and controller)
3.2. Protocol/software components
3.2.1. Domain control agent
3.2.2. SIP server/SIP user agent
3.2.3. DRCP server/client
3.2.4. Mobile IP server/client
3.2.5. Application servers
4. Functional features and performance
4.1. Multimedia session establishment
4.2. Seamless terminal mobility
4.3. Fast and optimized handoff methods
4.4. Mobility-aware quality of service
4.5. Localized IP multicast
4.6. Softswitch/SIP-PSTN integration
4.7. Mobility over heterogeneous access
4.8. Mobility support for IPv6
4.9. Multi-layer security framework
4.9.1. SIP–AAA model
4.9.2. PANA–AAA model
4.9.3. Per-packet encryption, authentication and replay protection
4.10. Secured multimedia call sequence
4.11. Secured mobility measurement
5. Conclusions and discussions
Acknowledgements
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