A self-healing approach for LTE Evolved Packet Core

Author

Rahman, Md Mamunur ; Heydari, Shahram Shah

Author_Institution

Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Technol., Oshawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

April 29 2012-May 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) is considered as a dominant future cellular wireless technology in terms of performance and user experience. With technological advancement of wireless networks, dependencies and business impact of mobile network services have also been increased phenomenally. It is, therefore, crucial to address issues regarding network infrastructure or service failure. In this paper, a self-healing solution is presented for LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) with a view to maintaining service continuity in the event of network elements failures. Restoration mechanism and associate operational procedures with regards to service survivability are described in details. Simulation results are provided and the results demonstrate potential of this approach.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; cellular radio; telecommunication network reliability; 3GPP long term evolution; EPC; LTE evolved packet core; associate operational procedures; business impact; cellular wireless technology; mobile network services; network elements failures; network infrastructure; restoration mechanism; self-healing approach; self-healing solution; service continuity; service failure; service survivability; technological advancement; wireless networks; Computer architecture; Context; Delay; IP networks; Mobile communication; Protocols; Wireless networks; LTE EPC; Self-healing; network survivability; service continuity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1431-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2012.6335007

Filename

6335007