Providing Scalable and Deployable Addressing in Third Generation Cellular Networks
Author
Summary, in English
Over the past few years, information technology
has changed the way we live, work, and communicate
with each other. The two outstanding
trends of Internet and cellular telephony growth
will now enter a new phase when the two technologies
converge into 2.5 and 3G networks. The
success of cellular telephony is due to the mobility
factor, and the success of the Internet is due
to its architecture, which allows a multitude of
services to use the same simple infrastructure.
The rollout of these networks has already started
around the world, but there are still outstanding
issues that are essential to resolve if the technology
is to be a success. One crucial issue is the
address space limitation of IPv4 and its impact
on cellular network scalability. To date, there
have been a number of proposals on how to alleviate
this problem. However, as we discuss in
this article, these solutions will not meet the
demands of the mobile Internet in that they will
either not scale satisfactorily or severely limit the
services that can be deployed. We therefore
introduce a new solution that will scale satisfactorily
while preserving the Internet model of
catering for a multitude of services.
has changed the way we live, work, and communicate
with each other. The two outstanding
trends of Internet and cellular telephony growth
will now enter a new phase when the two technologies
converge into 2.5 and 3G networks. The
success of cellular telephony is due to the mobility
factor, and the success of the Internet is due
to its architecture, which allows a multitude of
services to use the same simple infrastructure.
The rollout of these networks has already started
around the world, but there are still outstanding
issues that are essential to resolve if the technology
is to be a success. One crucial issue is the
address space limitation of IPv4 and its impact
on cellular network scalability. To date, there
have been a number of proposals on how to alleviate
this problem. However, as we discuss in
this article, these solutions will not meet the
demands of the mobile Internet in that they will
either not scale satisfactorily or severely limit the
services that can be deployed. We therefore
introduce a new solution that will scale satisfactorily
while preserving the Internet model of
catering for a multitude of services.
Publishing year
2003
Language
English
Pages
36-42
Publication/Series
IEEE Wireless Communications
Volume
10
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Topic
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1536-1284