An IPv4-IPv6 translation mechanism for SIP overlay network in UMTS all-IP environment

Author

Chen, Whai-En ; Lin, Yi-Bing ; Pang, Ai-Chun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

23

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2152

Lastpage

2160

Abstract

Both IPv6 and session initiation protocol (SIP) are default protocols for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) all-Internet protocol (IP) network. In the existing mobile telecommunications environments, an IPv6-based UMTS all-IP network needs to interwork with other Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4)-based SIP networks. Therefore, mobile SIP applications are typically offered through an overlay structure over the IPv4-Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) interworking environments. Based on 3GPP 23.228, we propose an IPv4-IPv6 translation mechanism (i.e., SIPv6 translator) that integrates different IP infrastructures (i.e., IPv4 and IPv6) to provide an overlay network for transparent SIP application deployment. In this paper, we present the architecture and the call flows of the SIPv6 translator. An analytic model is proposed to investigate the fault tolerance issue of our approach. Our study provides guidelines to select appropriate number of processors for fault tolerance.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; Internet; fault tolerant computing; mobile computing; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; 3GPP 23.228; IMS; IPv4-IPv6 translation mechanism; Internet protocol version 4; Internet protocol version 6; SIP overlay network; UMTS all-IP environment; call flow; fault tolerance; multimedia core network subsystem; session initiation protocol; third-generation partnership project; universal mobile telecommunications system; 3G mobile communication; Access protocols; Fault tolerance; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Guidelines; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Radio access networks; Web and internet services; All-IP; Internet protocol multimedia core network subsystem (IMS); Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4); Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6); Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP); session initiation protocol (SIP); translation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSAC.2005.856836

Filename

1525165