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On minimizing serving GW/MME relocations in LTE

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In the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) study of the nextgeneration mobile network in 3GPP, Serving Gateways (SGWs) and Mobility Management Entities (MMEs) are grouped to form a number of service and pool areas, respectively. While this concept of SGW service areas in the Evolved Packet Core is interesting to limit the administrative scope of SGWs and also provides a means to optimize the routing, the use of fixed/hard area boundaries can result in frequent unnecessary SGW relocations and can severely impact the Quality of Experience (QoE) of users. To avoid the drawback of fix/hard service (or pool) area boundaries, this paper proposes a scheme whereby every SGW can have a flexibly configurable service area, which is defined by a set of LTE (Long Term Evolution) cells or Tracking Areas (TAs). The service area of a SGW defines the LTE area (e.g., cells or TAs) that the SGW can serve. The working of the proposed mechanism is validated via computer simulations and encouraging results are obtained.

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        IWCMC '10: Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
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        1. 3GPP networks
        2. EPC
        3. EPS
        4. LTE
        5. MME Pool
        6. MME relocation
        7. handover
        8. serving gateway relocation

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