Design of Call Control Signaling in Wireless ATM Networks

: In this paper, a multiservice, local-area, wireless access ATM system is explored from a signaling protocol viewpoint. The signaling architecture considered here follows the signaling structure of Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) User-Network Interface (UNI), thus offering the possibility for integration of the wireless ATM access system into fixed B-ISDN. It is shown that the use of the employed signaling structure substantially simplifies the call/bearer and handover control. The evaluation of the signaling protocol architecture yields results, which fall within acceptable ATM signaling performance measures. A comparison with alternate access signaling configurations is also carried out to quantify the relative gains.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Nikolaos H. Loukas, Nikos I. Passas, Lazaros F. Merakos, Iakovos S. Venieris
• Keywords: ATM Signaling Performance, Communications, ICC 1997, Signaling Protocol, Signaling Structure