QoS-aware path selection in a B3G system

Conference: PIMRC 2005 - 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
09/11/2005 - 09/14/2005 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: PIMRC 2005

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Nafisi, N.; Wang, L.; Dohler, M.; Aghvami, H. (Centre for Telecommunications Research King’s College London, UK)
Ferrús, R.; Gelonch, A.; Sallent, O.; Pérez-Romero, J. (Signal Theory and Communications Department UPC, Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract:
In the B3G system considered, which is based on the 3GPP UMTS architecture, the initial hypothesis made in this paper, is that the QoS management of the IP access network is taken in charge by a bandwidth broker. A pre-handover signalling for QoS-aware path selection is investigated with the goal of achieving the "Always Best Connected" paradigm. Furthermore, the scalability of the proposed scheme is analysed taking into account the overhead due to IP micromobility, QoS routing, CRRM and bandwidth broker.