Citation:

Rohith Kannanore Natarajan, 2025. "Seamless Session Migration in Browser-Based Systems: Techniques and Frameworks", ESP Journal of Engineering & Technology Advancements  5(2): 332-341.

Abstract:

The contemporary browser-based applications have developed into an interactive, highly endowed environment that can aid real-time collaboration, multimedia processing, and distributed cloud services. Nevertheless, the traditional web session models were created to support stateless request-response interactions, and thus cannot be suitable to maintain dynamic runtime context across devices, browsers or infrastructure changes. The present paper examines the term seamless session migration that facilitates the capture, transfer and restoration of an active application session without disrupting user experience. It discusses the problem of continuity of session due to client-side execution and transient browser state, distributed architecture and looks at methods like session state serialization, real-time synchronization, checkpointing and token-based reconstruction. Enabling technologies are also discussed in the study, such as Web Storage APIs, service workers, distributed session stores, and cloud-edge infrastructures that add up to resilient migration. The security, performance optimization, and recovery of failure are considered to make sure that the session mobility is safe and efficient. Combining these methods, the paper suggests a consistent vision of ensuring continuity in the interaction of contemporary web ecosystems.

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Keywords:

Seamless Session Migration, State Serialization, Distributed Sessions, Web Technologies, Cloud-Edge Computing, Session Continuity.