An IPv4-IPv6 Translation Mechanism for IMS Network

Author

Liu, Xiaofa ; Cao, Xinzhou ; Li, Huan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Telecommun. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a new network architecture for providing multimedia service in the next generation network. 3GPP R6 standards specified that both Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) are default protocols. So IMS network needs to interwork with the early deployed Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)-based IMS clients. In this paper, we introduce a Session Border Controller (SBC) between IMS Core and clients to handle this interworking. We present the architecture and call flows of SBC. An analytic model is proposed to investigate the fault tolerance issue of our approach.

Keywords

IP networks; fault tolerance; multimedia communication; protocols; 3GPP R6 standards; IMS network; IP multimedia subsystem; IPv4-IPv6 translation mechanism; fault tolerance; internet protocol version 6; multimedia service; network architecture; next generation network; session border controller; session initiation protocol; Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Fault tolerance; IP networks; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Next generation networking; Spine; Telecommunication standards; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.987

Filename

4678895