Mobile Networks and Management. Second International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2010, Santander, Spain, September 22-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Proactive Vertical Handover Optimizations in the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_11,
        author={Marius Corici and Dragos Vingarzan and Thomas Magedanz and Cornel Pampu and Qing Zhou},
        title={Proactive Vertical Handover Optimizations in the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core},
        proceedings={Mobile Networks and Management. Second International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2010, Santander, Spain, September 22-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MONAMI},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Access Network Discovery and Selection Heterogeneous Networks Fast Handovers Evolved Packet Core},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_11}
    }
    
  • Marius Corici
    Dragos Vingarzan
    Thomas Magedanz
    Cornel Pampu
    Qing Zhou
    Year: 2012
    Proactive Vertical Handover Optimizations in the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core
    MONAMI
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_11
Marius Corici1,*, Dragos Vingarzan1,*, Thomas Magedanz1,*, Cornel Pampu1,*, Qing Zhou1,*
  • 1: Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute and Huawei Technologies
*Contact email: marius-iulian.corici@fokus.fraunhofer.de, dragos.vingarzan@fokus.fraunhofer.de, thomas.magedanz@fokus.fraunhofer.de, cornel.pampu@huawei.com, zhou.qing@huawei.com

Abstract

Mobility in a wireless heterogeneous scenario in which the mobile devices are able to connect to more than one access technology available in their vicinity requires a re-consideration of the access network reselection mechanisms as to ensure seamless handovers for real deployments. This paper describes and evaluates a new proactive vertical handover optimization which enables a fast reselection, independent and in addition to the classic proactive procedures. It uses as central concept the separation between the proactive context establishment and the actual handover triggered operations which may be at their turn active or proactive. This concept is exemplified on the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core and evaluated on a minimal prototype implementation.