Service centric mobility management for improving Quality of Experience toward future mobile network

Abstract

In future mobile networks, we anticipate the massive use of small cells to meet the high demand of wireless resources. With such a mobile network infrastructure, we expect very frequent handovers during communication, and these degrade application layer performance. To overcome this problem, we propose a service centric handover scheme. With this scheme, a network recelves information from the application service of a user and utilizes it to determine when and where to make a handover. In particular, we illustrate our proposal based on a cloud-based driving navigation service and describe how information from the service can be integrated into the C-plane architecture of a mobile network architecture. We show the effectiveness of our proposal in the case of a single piece of user equipment using an ns-3 simulator.