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

fYear

2009

fDate

5-10 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSNETS.2009.4808886

Filename

4808886