Performance evaluation of heterogeneous network for next generation mobile

Author

Chowdhury, Abu Sayed ; Gregory, Mark

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

21-23 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

104

Abstract

It is a universally stated design requirement that next generation mobile systems will be compatible and inter-operable with IPv6 and with various access technologies such as 802.11x. The current growth of WLANs worldwide has yielded a demand to integrate with existing 3G mobile technologies. Interworking incorporates all of the best features of an individual network into a single integrated system thus providing ubiquitous data services with high data rates in WLAN hotspots. The attempt to build hybrid networks has been linked with many technical challenges such as seamless vertical handovers across WLAN/3G radio technologies, security, common authentication, unified accounting & billing, etc. This paper evaluates the performance of two 3G/WLAN integration schemes: Tight and Loose Coupling. Mobile IP is used as a mobility management scheme and EAP-AKA for common authentication.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; open systems; wireless LAN; 3G mobile systems; EAP-AKA; IPv6 networks; Mobile IP; heterogeneous network; loose coupling; next generation mobile systems; tight coupling; wireless LAN; 3G mobile communication; Authentication; Computer networks; IP networks; Mobile computing; Next generation networking; Packet switching; Switching circuits; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless LAN; 3G; EAP-AKA; Mobile IP; VOIP Codec; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Information Technology, 2009. ICCIT '09. 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6281-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIT.2009.5407157

Filename

5407157