GLOBECOM 2005 Tutorial

Monday, 28 November
Majestic Ballroom F / Level Two / Renaissance Grand Hotel

Title:   TU 07 IEEE Standards and Cellular Based Broadband Wireless IP

Duration : Half Day/2:00PM-5:00PM

Instructor: Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia

Abstract:
Abstract: While broadband wireless IP has been a topic of research in the past few years for the telecommunications engineers, it has been always assumed that it would be developed within the cellular wireless network infrastructure or later through the integration with the complementary services provided by the wireless LAN. More recently, we are witnessing a new direction from emerging standards and technologies that are from the IEEE 802 family. The IEEE 802.16 wireless MAN together with the IEEE 802.20 and 802.21 would create a new path for the wireless IP having better compatibility with the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN than their cellular counterparts.

Although the two directions are different in principle, due to the vast infrastructure of wireless cellular (2G and 3G) already deployed in most parts of the world, the future of wireless IP will remain in efficient integration and internetworking of all these networks.

In this tutorial the state-of-the art technologies for the wireless IP including cellular networks and IEEE standards will be reviewed. Technological requirements of the next generation networks to support the wireless IP including mobility management, resource management, and quality of service management will be outlined. The most profound requirement of the future wireless IP network, that is, the network architecture will be explained with emphasis on future services and applications that must be supported within the wireless networks, consisting both data and voice-type real time traffics. The tutorial will compare the two deployment directions of the wireless IP using cellular versus IEEE standards.

Motivation:
This tutorial provides a complete course on the requirements and architecture of next generation wireless networks and the wireless IP. The tutorial also includes state-of-the art activities and standardizations in the field and therefore it provides a complete review of the relevant topics. The main motivation is the great interest among researchers and developers for a short course in this field in order to update knowledge this emerging technology.