Title :
A metering infrastructure for heterogenous mobile networks
Author :
Monger, Andreas ; Fouquet, Marc ; Hoene, Christian ; Carle, Georg ; Schläger, Morten
Author_Institution :
Wilhelm Schickard Inst. for Comput. Sci., Univ. of Tubingen, Tubingen
Abstract :
The next generation of mobile access networks will support different access technologies like UMTS, WLAN, WiMax and LTE. Optimal handover decisions between different access networks have to take various types of information into account, such as the load of possible target cells. However, collecting this information and transporting it to mobility management decision engines is costly in terms of bandwidth. With our flexible Generic Metering Infrastructure (GMI) we are able to collect state information from the core and access networks efficiently. Using the GMI, network operators will be able to control handover decisions for their users.
Keywords :
mobility management (mobile radio); radio access networks; LTE; UMTS; WLAN; WiMax; generic metering infrastructure; heterogenous mobile access network; mobility management decision engine; optimal handover decision; 3G mobile communication; Bandwidth; Base stations; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Decision making; Mobile computing; Resource management; WiMAX; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Systems and Networks and Workshops, 2009. COMSNETS 2009. First International
Conference_Location :
Bangalore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2912-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2913-4
DOI :
10.1109/COMSNETS.2009.4808886
