Mobility Support for a Future Communication Architecture
- 3rd Generation networks as proposed by 3GPP claim to follow the path towards fixed-mobile convergence and full support of Internet services. Although the providers have obviously recognised the dynamics of the Internet, their attempt to provide IP-services over the system has led to a circuit switched architecture. This forthcoming infrastructure will be a sophisticated, complicated, and quite expensive network, with some IP-equipment in the middle (core-network). From an IETF-biased engineers view, some parts of this network and protocols could be dropped, except that they are probably needed for backward compatibility. But since backward compatibility and saving of investment is a major concern of the standardising bodies, the evolving architectures carry a big burden.
| Document Type: | Conference Object |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | H. Einsiedler, J. Jähnert, K. Jonas, M. Liebsch, R. Schmitz |
| Parent Title (English): | IST Mobile Communications Summit 2001, Barcelona, Spain |
| Publication year: | 2001 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
| Entry in this database: | 2015/11/11 |
