Mobile multimedia applications are becoming an increasingly important aspect of everyday life, from the ubiquitous cellular telephone with text messaging services to advanced mobile video conferencing and optimized Internet access. The mobility initiative within the LandMARC project aims to investigate, and provide a level of support for, multimedia system support in future mobile environments.
The next generation Internet protocol, IPv6, together with the IETF proposed standard for host mobility, Mobile IPv6, promises to provide many beneficial mechanisms for the provision of multimedia services. The focus of the LandMARC project is to investigate how effective these mechanisms are for mobile applications, and address any problems discovered through that investigation. Building on previous Mobile IPv6 research, the LandMARC approach is to develop an experimental Mobile IPv6 implementation for Windows 2000 and Windows CE, based on the Microsoft Research MSR IPv6 implementation.
Focusing initially on protocol performance, LandMARC will be tackling issues of resource discovery and mobile device handoff time in heterogeneous networks, utilizing active network technology to provide flexible dynamic reconfiguration of network environments.
The Release Candidate 4.1b of the Windows 2000 Mobile IPv6 implementation is now available for public beta testing.
Our previous Mobile IPv6 implementation for Linux is still available.