I imagine there will be a lot of real-time (interactive) video over IP or broadcast IPTV applications as well reaching out to mobile devices (laptops, iphones, etc.). For such applications a few seconds delay would not be acceptable when the connection requires seamless mobility from one Wi-MAX cell to another or from Wi-MAX to WLAN, etc.
Sriram http://www.antd.nist.gov/~ksriram/ Quoting Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Russ White wrote: > > >> I agree. An ITR-ETR scheme with mapping updates which take a few > >> seconds to be implemented in all ITRs provides a whole new global > >> system for highly optimised mobility - for both IPv4 and IPv6, with > >> few new host requirements. > > > > But.... A few seconds is probably too long for it to be useful in a > > mobile environment. > > > A few seconds is more than sufficient to deal with a number of > portability and migration use cases. In particular, anything that is > quick enough so that TCP connections don't break is extremely > interesting. > > This isn't to say that this type of delay is acceptable for all > mobility use cases. You'd probably be pretty upset if your cell > phone cut out for two seconds at the edge of every cell. However, > for cases where your laptop transitions from WiFi to wired Ethernet, > a few seconds to transition seems eminently doable and beneficial. > > Tony > > -- > to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. > archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg > -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
