Mapping quality of service classes between UMTS, WiMAX and DiffServ/MPLS networks

Author

Sarraf, Charles M. ; Ousta, Firas ; Yusoff, Mohd Zuki ; Kamel, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Holly Spirit Univ. of Kaslik (USEK), Kaslik, Lebanon

fYear

2013

fDate

22-24 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

One of the major issues for Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks (HWAN) or Next Generation Wireless Network (NGWN) is integrating the different wireless access technologies (e.g. GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, WiMAX, WLAN, etc...) into a common platform. This integration should transparently provide mobile users unified and continuous services, including seamless handoff and real-time support of QoS. However, a real-time support of End-to-End QoS, in HWAN, is a challenging task that requires mapping of related messages as well as their associated attributes and parameters across all networks. In this paper, we present a novel method for mapping these messages and their attributes across UMTS, WiMAX and IP-Diffserv/MPLS networks.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; DiffServ networks; IP networks; WiMax; multiprotocol label switching; quality of service; DiffServ network; HWAN; IP-Diffserv/MPLS network; NGWN; UMTS network; WiMAX network; continuous service; heterogeneous wireless access network; next generation wireless network; quality of service class mapping; real time QoS support; seamless handoff; unified service; 3G mobile communication; Couplings; Diffserv networks; Multiprotocol label switching; Quality of service; WiMAX; Wireless networks; 4G; DiffServ; IP; MPLS; QoS; UMTS; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (WCCIT), 2013 World Congress on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0460-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCCIT.2013.6618708

Filename

6618708