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Ubiquitous Multimedia Communication
Johan Kristiansson Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering
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Who am I?

• Johan Kristiansson
• Ph.D student at Computer Science and Electrical
  Engineering
• Division of Information and Communication
  Technology (ICT)
• The Media technology research group
• Mobil multimedia communication research

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Introduction

• Ubiquitous multimedia communication
• Communicate from any place, any time, any device
• Using any available network
• Using multiple networks or devices if possible
• Combine multiple communication tools to maximize
  user benefit
• Try to make the best out of every situation
• It should just work!!

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Ubiquitous multimedia communication

• How to keep a multimedia session running?
• How to swap between different wireless and fixed
  carriers?
• Host mobility
• Bandwidth management
• Mange disconnections
• How to swap between devices
• Session mobility
• Minimize user efforts

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Ubiquitous multimedia communication
Management plane
Data plane
Multimedia application
User interest/need
Adaptation decisions
Data
Middleware/ Application API
Information
Overlay networks/DTN
Configure
Context-awareness
Mobility management
Bandwidth mangament
Configuration manager
TCP/IP
Information
Configure
Information
Link layer
Configure