Context-Driven Resource Over-Provisioning Approach for Rich Networking

Mobile users are increasingly demanding multimedia content created specifically or at least tailored to cater for their needs and preferences. The limitations of current Internet challenge a lot the design of such sessions, and require embedding innovations beyond standards to achieve rich networking. In this scope, the Context Casting (C-CAST) project designed a context-sensitive network architecture to support value-added multimedia sessions with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteed towards multiple users simultaneously, and in their wireless technologies. However, the per-flow driven signalling approach of Legacy C-CAST exponentially increases with the number of flow admissions, which jeopardize the system performance. Thus, this paper proposes the Advanced C-CAST, which re-architects the Legacy C-CAST to support context-driven over-provisioning of per-class bandwidth and overlay trees. The evaluation of Advanced C-CAST demonstrated its benefits against Legacy C-CAST by significantly optimizing overall signalling load and latency experience.