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The permanent evolution of future wireless network technologies together with demand for new multimedia applications, has driven a need to create new wireless, mobile and multimedia-awareness systems. In this context, the IEEE 802.16 Standard (IEEE 802.16 e, 2005), also known as WiMAX (WorldWide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an attractive solution for last mile Future Multimedia Internet (Sollner, 2008), particularly because of its wide coverage range and throughput support.

The IEEE 802.16 e extension, also known as Mobile WiMAX, supports mobility management with the Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6). This provides service connectivity in handover scenarios, by coordinating layer 2 (MAC layer) and layer 3 (IP layer) mobility mechanisms (Neves, 2009). In addition to mobility control issues, an end-to-end quality level support for multimedia applications is required to satisfy the growing demands of fixed and mobile users, while increasing the profits of the content providers.