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Spurred by the increasing demand for mobile broadband services and the growing number of devices supporting multiple radio access technologies (e.g., cellular, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), much research is being done to improve the user experience while addressing issues related to network efficiency, congestion, interference, and cost to operators, service providers, manufacturers, and consumers alike...
The web caching business has significantly changed over the recent years. The percentage of content that is suitable for caching has constantly decreased, e.g. due to unfavorable content formats like Flash or varying URLs due to usage of CDNs. While this of course has a negative impact on the effectiveness of caching, also other parts of the equation have changed: Transmission cost has dropped significantly,...
This paper analyzes signaling traffic generated by IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) when deployed within a hybrid WLAN IEEE 802.11 and CDMA2000 networks to provide wireless and broadband services to users. IMS provides a services infrastructure to 3G networks and beyond and delivers the capability to maintain sessions among calling parties. IMS is under varying degrees of trials and deployment. Service...
Mobile broadband is increasing rapidly both when it comes to traffic and the number of subscriptions. Operators are challenged by the fact that revenues from mobile broadband are de-coupled from the traffic. In this paper we will analyze if this de-coupling results in a “revenue gap” for the combined voice and mobile broadband business and, if this is the case, how significant the gap is. We analyze...
The wide adoption of mobile broadband services by users of smartphones and other mobile terminals is being enabled by radio access technologies with better performance than many fixed residential broadband lines. Mobile network operators are upgrading their networks to deliver growing packet traffic cost effectively, while maintaining critical operational functions such as base station synchronization...
To support battery powered mobile broadband wireless access devices efficiently, IEEE 802.16e defines a sleep mode operation for conserving the power of mobile terminals. In this paper, a linear hybrid algorithm is proposed based on the adjustment of sleep window under circumstances of low service traffic, aiming for reducing the response time and energy consumption of mobile subscribe station (MSS)...
This paper surveys the issues in implementing a wired backhaul optical network that supports mobility of broadband wireless access network users. In particular, the focus is on the functionalities and the performance in terms of delay, throughput, and reliability that the backhaul network must guarantee.
Current mobility management approaches are highly centralized and hierarchical. They make use of centralized anchors located in core networks, responsible for forwarding traffic to/from mobile nodes' location. Emerging networks standards developed for new broadband cellular radio interfaces are use flat architecture where control functions are deployed in network edges such as evolved base stations...
The mobile wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) architecture imposes a demanding power management requirement on mobile stations (MSs) in order to prolong the lifetime of MS. The base station (BS) will functionally serve as a buffer for non-real-time traffic distribution to the multiple MSs associated with it, and thus naturally provide MSs with the power saving capability. However, the power...
This article presents the outlook of the overall broadband market and operators' challenges in offering profitable mass market mobile data services. The concept of wireless relaying and its state of the art are then introduced, followed by a comprehensive description of a multihop relay system for WiMAX and related use cases. The article explains the impact of relays on network planning and presents...
This paper presents a method of predicting changes of power consumption at Node B of a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) mobile network due to dynamic resource allocation such as movement of unit equipment (UE), handover call from adjacent cell and accommodation of new service request. The method learns the mapping of power consumption at Node B by monitoring power changes that response...
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