A Decentralized Infrastructure for All IP Cellular Networks
An IP-based radio access network akin to the Internet is likely to be the
most favorable approach for future radio access networks. While it is
possible to consider IP transport within the centralized architecture
in the current generation of cellular networks, a distributed architecture
with decentralized control provides improved scalability, flexibility,
reliability, fault-tolerance, convenience in introducing new services and
ease in integration of multiple networks. We proposed a network architecture
consisting of inter-connecting base station routers (BSRs), to replace
the hierarchical structure consisting of a set of radio network controller;
each manages a large number of base stations. Radio resource control
functionalities which are performed by radio network controller in centralized
architecture are distributed to each BSR.
Publications:
Distributed Radio Link Control Protocol in an All-IP Cellular Network
IEEE Vehicle Technology Conference (VTC), Fall, 2005.
[Abstract, PDF]
Talks: coming soon!
People:
Suman Das,Thierry E. Klein, Kin K. Leung, Sayandev Mukherjee,
George E. Rittenhouse, Sam Samuel, Harish Viswanathan, Haitao Zheng
