[STDS-802-16-MOBILE] Clarification regarding idle mode and paging
"Idle Mode is intended as a mechanism to allow MSS to become periodically
available for DL broadcast traffic Messaging ..".
It seems that the ability of an MSS to determine which type of traffic
may generate paging is important on a network supporting a variety of
services - and obviously it is also missing in paging definition.
In a 3GPP network, paging is simple due to limited services that might
use it (dedicated voice calls and SMS) - this service is inherent and
explicit in the network. However, when moving to a shared services
network it is quite desirable to be able to determine which types of
traffic generate paging without requiring specific carrier application to
register and support the paging.
This is especially important on data networks where many protocols send
out periodic messages that the MSS may choose to discard while
maintaining some degree of availability.
It seems that defining optional idle mode service flows (with
classifiers) will provide a simple, flexible and necessary amendment to
the current paging definition.
I'd like to hear your thoughts/inputs on this.
Thanks in advance !
Gedon Rosner
Intel Corporation