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RE: [802.21] Network Controlled Handover and IS



Mat,

Some more comments below.

Thanks,
Ulises

 


From: zze-Seamless PERESSE M ext RD-RESA-REN [mailto:mperesse.ext@RD.FRANCETELECOM.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:40 AM
To: STDS-802-21@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: Re: [802.21] Network Controlled Handover and IS

 

Hi Ulises,

 

thanks for your comments.

 

Please see my answers below :

 

 


From: zze-Seamless PERESSE M ext RD-RESA-REN [mailto:mperesse.ext@RD.FRANCETELECOM.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:29 AM
To: STDS-802-21@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [802.21] Network Controlled Handover and IS

 

Hi all,

 

I would like to open a discussion about Network Controlled Handover (which has to be covered by 802.21) and IS:

 

We need to make a distinction between system discovery and selection and handover. As stated in the current 802.21 draft, 802.21 provides three main services, namely Command Service (CS), Event Service (ES) and Information Service (IS). The IS provided is better suited for the system discovery and selection as it might not always meet stringent requirements, imposed by the need to handover while providing real time services. One the other hand, ES and CS are better suited for handover applications.

[[MP]] 

 I am well aware that CS and ES are suited for handover concerns. In my previous email I was talking about Information Elements an UE could transmit to an MME in order to select the best PoA for that UE (that is the first procedure in a Network Controlled HO, the second would be the order itself..). I wasn't talking about HO decisions/command. I wanted to express how IS could be of help if we consider Network Controlled Handover. The Information Exchange scheme won't be the same in the case of a terminal driven HO or in the case of a Network driven HO...

 

 

[UO]

I believe your are stressing the bidirectional nature of the IS. This is a valid point. Although this wasn’t precluded in the slides presented yesterday. If we indicate that the information exchange is bidirectional and asymmetric this should satisfy the need express above. Please comment.

 

In the draft, the only means to transfer this kind of Information is through the "MIH_Poll.request/response" primitive, which is a Command... I don't think this is very practical, as the MME would have to regularly make a MIH_Poll.request to UEs, to get up to date values of the various parameters....

 

The draft also provides the means to indicate when the value of a relevant parameter has changed through a Link Parameter Change event.. This includes parameters such as BER, FER, RSSI and bit rate. Even though we might still need to review this list and addition/modification might be appropriate, this is the vehicle that 802.21 provides to flag real time parameter value changes such as the ones you proposed above.

[[MP]] 

OK... But, at least semantically, I don't think a Measurement Report can be considered as an "Event" by itself... For me, it's more an "Information" ;-)

Furthermore, if we use Link Parameter Changes for Link Parameters we should also introduce an "Application Parameters Change" event (for QoS needs change upon a new app launch on the terminal) and possibly a "User Preference List change" event (when a user changes its allowed list of network / technologies / cost limit......). That's what I can think of, maybe there are more...

 

[UO]

As I indicated, above if we see the need to add more parameter, we should propose it. I believe the current list could still be improved. Your e-mail is a good way to motivate a discussion leading to a complete list. One think to keep in mind (although is probably obvious) is that the list of IE required for ES and IS will not necessarily be the same and as such it might be better to hold separates discussions. 

 

Finally that would imply a disctinction between an UE Information Element Set (to be sent to an MME/InfoDatabase...TBD) and a PoA Information Element Set (IEs to be transmitted to the UE on demand - these IEs are the ones currently defined in the draft).

 

Looking forward to your comments

 

Rgds,

 

Mat

 


De : Eunah Kim [mailto:eakim@etri.re.kr]
Envoyé : mercredi 24 août 2005 12:17
À : STDS-802-21@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Objet : Re: [802.21] Meeting minutes of today's ad-hoc teleconference

Hi Yoshihiro,

 

Thanks for your clarification.

 

>> By the way,
>> when will it be the case of (1:n)?
>
> An UE attached with only one NISP can communicate with multiple IS
> Functions within the NISP, if the information databases are
> distributed in the NISP.  An example is that XML/RDF databases can be
> distributed similar to DNS.
>

It seems like rather implementation issue

We are considering the interface between IS functions in the UE and in the network

and I think the term NISP is adopted to be used as the peer concept of the UE.

Thus, if we assume that there is one IS function in the NISP,

it will be a lot simpler and easier to understand.

 

BTW, does indicating the relationship(1:n) have an effect on making requirements?

If not, why don't we leave it out from the reference model and all Use-Cases.

 

Regards,

Eunah

 

>>
>> My understanding is that one UE can communicate with only one NISP at a moment.
>> The reason for having (1:n) would be the case that the UE moves so needs to connect
>> with a different NISP from the previous one. Am I right?
>
> Yes, the multi-NISP case is one obvious reason.  There can be other
> reason as I described above.  BTW, I think the current reference model
> does not seem to preclude the case in which one UE communicates with
> multiple NISPs at a moment, as the model just defines interfaces.  We
> can discuss this level of details in the process of identifying actual
> requirements.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Yoshihiro Ohba