Design and implementation of UMTS session management in the user equipment: Research Articles
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
QoS control in the 3GPP evolved packet system
IEEE Communications Magazine
A seamless voice call handover scheme for next generation cellular network
APCC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific conference on Communications
Design and implementation of policy and charging control system for advanced mobile services
ICICS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information, communications and signal processing
A mobility management strategy for GPRS
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Modeling Credit Reservation Procedure for UMTS Online Charging System
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Reducing Credit Re-authorization Cost in UMTS Online Charging System
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Mobility support for IP-Based networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
An enhanced SIP proxy server for wireless VoIP in wireless mesh networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
A new random walk model for PCS networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A Flexible QoS-aware Service Gateway for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Modeling VoIP Call Holding Times for Telecommunications
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The Evolved Packet System (EPS) is standardized to support a common IP-based core network with heterogeneous radio accesses in the latest 3GPP release. In the EPS, the Policy and Charging Control (PCC) framework provides dynamic policy control combined with real-time charging management. Long core network signaling for PCC degrades session continuity performance during handover. In this paper, we investigate the handover for an EPS session. Based on the results, we propose a proactive scheme along with a user mobility tracking model to improve session continuity. More specifically, our proposed scheme attempts to reduce PCC reauthorization signaling delay during the handover procedure. Then, we formulate a Markov process to model the user mobility pattern and to derive the session continuity probability. Numerical results show that our scheme can significantly keep the session continuity at a user acceptable level even when the mobility pattern is high. We also provide guidelines for operators to set up the network configuration parameters according to various traffic conditions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.