FARA: reorganizing the addressing architecture
FDNA '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture
Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) - A way to fix the broken Internet
Information Security Tech. Report
A simulation based comparative study of normalization procedures in multiattribute decision making
AIKED'07 Proceedings of the 6th Conference on 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases - Volume 6
Hi3: An efficient and secure networking architecture for mobile hosts
Computer Communications
An ID/locator split architecture for future networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Distributed or centralized mobility?
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Evaluation and Comparison of Signaling Protocol Alternatives for the Ultra Flat Architecture
ICSNC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications
Flat architectures: towards scalable future internet mobility
The future internet
Suitability analysis of existing and new authentication methods for future 3GPP Evolved Packet Core
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Telecommunication suppliers predict a huge mobile Internet traffic increase for the next decade. It seems to be technically challenging and expensive to adapt current mobile network architectures to the increasing traffic demand. Core network technology must scale to the demands under limited revenue growth. This work is to discuss a new, flat, fully distributed and convergent network architecture, called Ultra Flat Architecture. It is well scalable due to the distribution of IP and numerous control functions at intelligent gateways placed within or close to the base stations. This paper focuses on the detailed presentation of two relevant integrated signalling schemes of the architecture. These schemes extend the Ultra Flat Architecture to support legacy Internet applications including IMS compliant applications with all necessary network functions, such as security, mobility, and Quality of Service. Besides Session Initialization Protocol, layers 2 and 3 are taken into account as well, in the terminal attachment and handover procedures. IP mobility is provided by the Host Identity Protocol or the Proxy Mobile IP protocol in the two schemes. We analyse the suitability of the schemes using the Multiplicative Analytic Hierarchy Process. Both schemes have nearly the same performance, however the HIP-based scheme got slightly better scores under our evaluation criteria due to its stronger security and fewer functional modules to deploy.