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3G Network Control Scenarios
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Introduction
• 802.21 aids in inter-technology handover with various usage
scenarios in mind
• It is also important for 802.21 to provide tools for cellular and
other operators to exercise network control to inter-work and
maximize the resource pool in other access networks
• This slide set presents network controlled usage scenarios for
Inter-technology network selection and HO control as a means to
understand the importance of such use cases
• This is for informational purposes only that can be used to verify
these scenarios are indeed covered under 802.21
802.21 vs Current 3GPP Mechanisms
• Access Control/ Network selection:
• Currently core functionality of 3GPP networks
• It is in the interest of several 3GPP parties in keeping access control between
3GPP (access) networks under its control
• This can be achieved while introducing enablers for seamless inter-technology
mobility using 802.21
• 802.21 focuses on aiding heterogeneous handoff (I.e. inter-technology handoff
e.g. 3GPP-802.11, 802.11-802.16, etc.)
• The only intra-technology handoff in scope is inter-subnet/inter-domain handoff for 802.11,
simply because 802.11 does not define it
• 3GPP/PP2 and 802.16 have their own access selection mechanisms for homogeneous
handoff, and 802.21 does not intend to interfere with that
• 3GPP-WLAN IW: current Network Selection mechanisms
• Based on policies and information stored in UE (SIM)
• Based on information collected from UE
• Network has no active role at moment of selection
• Issue: cumbersome mechanism, requires connecting to a network to decide
whether to connect to the network
802.21 Usage Scenarios for 3GPP
• A set of example “access system selection” scenarios to describe
what can be achieved with 802.21
• Scenarios using 802.21 service are split between two
dimensions
• Network Selection &
• Handover control
• Terminology
• 3G-PDN: indicates the whole network (including AN and
core network, i.e. up to point where UE gets IP connectivity)
• MME: Mobility Management Entity
• It’s a network entity sitting “above” current 3GPP access (e.g. located
“after” the ISN) in charge of making connectivity decision for network
controlled handoff.
• MME may incorporate an instance of MIHF
Usage Scenarios for 3G Cellular Network -> IEEE 802.x
Scenario-A: 3G network is MIH unaware
Visited
Access to MIHF (IS) over L3
3G-PDN
MIHFNW MIHFNW
UTRAN GERAN WiMAX
802.11-AN 802.16-AN
PDN
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Usage Scenarios for 3G Cellular Network -> IEEE 802.x
Scenario-B: 3G network is MIH aware, provides IS, ES & CS
Internet
MIHFNW MME
Home
3G-PDN Access to MIHF over L3
Note: MIHF can be physically
implemented as a set of MIHF.
MME can be more or less
UTRAN GERAN WiMAX centralized
802.11-AN 802.16-AN
PDN
Internet
MIHFNW
Access to Access to
MIHF IS over MIHF IS over
Home L3 L3
3G-PDN
MIHFNW MIHFNW
UTRAN GERAN WiMAX
802.11-AN 802.16-AN
PDN
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NW Initiated NW Selection for Scenario-B
3G->802.x: 3G provides all MIH services
UE Network Operator
MIH User MIHFUE MAC Layers 3G-PDN MIHFNW MME MIHFNW (IS) 802.16-AN 802.11-AN 802.11-AN
MIH-Register-Event.Resp()
MIH-Register-Events.Resp
DL-Burst*
Link-Detect
Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
MIH-Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
MIH-Info.Req
MIH-Info.Resp
Unfavorable
Scan(802.11) Network
Beacon
Beacon
Link-Detect
Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
MIH-Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
MIH-Info.Req
MIH-Info.Resp
Favorable
Network =>
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NW Initiated NW Selection for Scenario-C
3G->802.x: 3G provides ES/CS services and can proxy IS services
UE Network Operator 802.16 Network 802.11 Network
MIH user MIHFUE MAC Layers 3G-PDN MIHFNW MME MIHFNW (IS) 802.16-AN MIHFNW (IS) 802.11-AN MIHFNW (IS)
MIH-Register-Event.Resp()
MIH-Register-Events.Resp
DL-Burst*
Link-Detect
Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
Just one Link Event MIH-Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
may be generated,
reporting both events Beacon
Link-Detect
Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
MIH-Link-Event.Detect(link_info)
MIH-Info.Req
MIH-Info-Req()
MIH-Info-Resp(nwk_info)
MIH-Info-Req()
MIH-Info-Resp(nwk_info)
MIH-Info.Resp
Favorable
Network =>
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NW Controlled HO for Scenarios B&C
3G ->802.x. HO Control in 3G with MIH ES/CS services
UE Operator Network 802.11 Network
Mobile-IP MIHFUE 3G-MM 802.11 MAC 3G-PDN MIHFNW MME 802.11-AN New-FA HA
Previously happened
Network
Legenda
Selection
Mobile-IP Tunneling
MIH-Link-Switch.Req(802.11 nwk)
Mobile-IP Signaling
MIH-Remote-Link-Switch.Req(802.11 nwk) Non-MIH (I.e.
MIP-switch.Ind Implementation
dependent)
MIH-switch.req
Link-Associate
L2-Procedures (Security, Re-association, QoS Neg.)
Link-Event-Up(802.11 nwk)
MIH-Link-Event-Up
Registration-Req
Registration-Req
Registration-Resp
Registration-Resp
L2-PDP-Cntxt-Rel(3G GMM)
3G-PDP-Rel()
Link-Event-Down(3G)
MIH-Link-Event-Down
MIH-switch.resp
MIH-Remote-Link-Switch.Resp
MIH-Link-Switch.Resp(802.11 nwk)
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