Advanced WLAN integration with the 3GPP evolved packet core

Author

Roeland, Dinand ; Rommer, Stefan

Author_Institution

Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden

Volume

52

Issue

12

fYear

2014

fDate

Dec-14

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

27

Abstract

The large growth in mobile broadband traffic, wide support of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technology in mobile devices, and the desire of operators to provide services anywhere at any time, have led to a need to integrate WLANs with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Evolved Packet Core (EPC). This paper starts with a description of an architecture that 3GPP has defined to achieve this. It describes how a mobile device can set up an IP connection over WLAN routed via EPC without imposing new requirements on the mobile device. It also describes how more advanced features that do impose new requirements on the mobile device can be supported in an incremental fashion.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; 3GPP EPC; 3rd generation partnership project evolved packet core; IP connection; advanced WLAN integration; mobile broadband traffic; mobile devices; wireless local area network technology; 3G mobile communication; Authentication; Broadband; Communication standards; Handover; IP networks; Internet; Standards; Telecommunication standards; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2014.6979982

Filename

6979982