Quality-of-service signaling for next-generation IP-based mobile networks

  • Authors:
  • J. Hillebrand;C. Prehofer;R. Bless;M. Zitterbart

  • Affiliations:
  • DoCoMo Commun. Laboratories Eur., Munich, Germany;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present a novel end-to-end QoS architecture that enables seamless services over heterogeneous wireless access networks. We discuss the main architectural approaches and design issues of mobility-aware QoS signaling in IP networks. Then we introduce a QoS signaling architecture that integrates resource management with mobility management. It is based on a domain resource manager concept and nicely supports various handover types in an integrated approach. In particular, we support anticipated handover with pre-reservation of resources over the old network before the mobile node is attached to the new access point.