Quantitative Comparison of Resource Management Strategies in UMTS-WLAN Integration at the Radio Access Level

Author

Vulic, N. ; Patil, P. ; De Groot, S. Heemstra ; Niemegeers, I.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2007

fDate

15-15 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The WLAN integration at the UMTS radio access level is a promising interworking approach, which provides the mobile operator with additional license-free bandwidth, enhances vertical handover performance and facilitates common management of all the available radio resources. The benefits are achieved at cost of various modifications of the UMTS radio access network. The modifications may be designed in different ways and may result in different architectural options with different performance. In; this paper, we present quantitative comparison of three architectural options, putting the focus on the initial radio interface selection algorithm.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; radio access networks; resource allocation; telecommunication network management; wireless LAN; UMTS radio access network; UMTS-WLAN integration; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; interworking approach; license-free bandwidth; mobile operator; radio interface selection algorithm; radio resource management; vertical handover performance; wireless local area network; 3G mobile communication; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Costs; Multiaccess communication; Radio access networks; Radio control; Radio spectrum management; Resource management; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux, 2007 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Delft

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1369-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1370-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCVT.2007.4436251

Filename

4436251