Minoli - Mobile Video with Mobile IPv6

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Minoli, Daniel, 1952
Mobile video with mobile IPv6 / Daniel Minoli.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-118-35497-1
1. Mobile television. 2. Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem. 3. TCP/IP (Computer network protocol) I. Title.
TK6678.3.M56 2012
006.696dc23
2012009802

For Anna

PREFACE

Mobility is clearly the wave of the future. Technology has progressed to a point where users carry powerful devices (smartphones and/or tablets) that enable them to be productive, connected, entertained, and instrumented while on the road, on a train, on a plane, on a boat, or nearly anywhere else. Location-based services (in conjunction with GPS (global positioning system) capabilities) enhance the value and sophistication of applications available to the user.

Up to now mobility has been supported using IP Version 4 (IPv4); however, there has been a steady depletion of the pool of available IPv4 address blocks in recent years. By 2011, only about 1 percent of the address space was left, a situation that is, by industry definition, a point of exhaustion. Service providers are now beginning to give serious consideration about the present need to plan a sustained deployment of IPv6 in order to maintain growth and provide customers with new enhanced services in conjunction with the rapid adoption of smartphones.

At the same time there has been increased interest in new forms of IP-based video distribution, both in terms of the underlying technology (for example, IPTV, streaming, P2P), and also in terms of the content creation. User-generated video and for-Web-publishing of original content, not to mention video on demand and time-shifted video, are seeing greater penetration. Furthermore, end users want to get access to such content not only on their standard or smart (connected) TV, but also on their smartphones, portable media players (PMPs), and tablets.

Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) offers an opportunity to support the evolving consumer paradigm of mobility, productivity, connectivity, entertainment, and instrumentation. This book seeks to explore the technology, protocols, deployment strategies, and approaches to MIPv6-based mobility in general and MIPv6-based mobile video in particular. (Some) operators are now deploying MIPv6 in cellular networks.

This text aims at exploring these evolving trends and offering practical suggestions of how these technologies can be implemented in the service provider networks to support cost-effective delivery of entertainment (especially considering the shifts in viewing habits), and how new revenue-generating services could be brought to the market. This is believed to be the first book on MIPv6 with applications to linear and nonlinear video distribution, especially in a mobile context. This work will be of interest to planners, Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), and engineers at broadcast TV operations, cable TV operations, satellite operations, Internet and Internet service providers (ISPs), telcos, and wireless providers, both domestically and in the rest of the world. Also, it will be of interest to set-top box developers, storage vendors, content developers, content distribution outfits, and content aggregators. The author acknowledges the fundamental contributions made by all the authors of the many Requests for Comments (RFCs) cited and summarized in this book, which form the technical basis for MIPv6; this book and reportage can be seen as advocacy for deployment of the technology, as a dnouement of all such technical work done by these professionals in past 8 years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Among other activities, Mr. Minoli has done extensive work in video engineering, design, and implementation over the years. The results presented in this book are based on foundation work done while at Telcordia, NYU, Stevens Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, AT&T, and other engineering firms, starting in the early 1990s and continuing to the present. Some of his video work has been documented in books he has authored, including:

• Linear and Non-Linear Video and TV Applications Using IPv6 and IPv6 Multicast (Wiley 2012);
• 3D Television (3DTV) Content Capture, Encoding, and Transmission Building the Transport Infrastructure for Commercial Services (Wiley, 2010);
• 3D Television (3DTV) Technology, Systems, and Deployment Rolling out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment (Francis and Taylor, 2010);
• IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2008);
• Video Dialtone Technology: Digital Video over ADSL, HFC, FTTC, and ATM (McGraw-Hill, 1995); and,
• Distributed Multimedia through Broadband Communication Services (co-authored) (Artech House, 1994).

Mr. Minoli has many years of technical-hands-on and managerial experience in planning, designing, deploying, and operating IP/IPv6-, telecom-, wireless-, satellite- and video networks, and data center systems and subsystems for global best-in-class carriers and financial companies. He has worked on advanced network deployments at financial firms such as