Abstract
One of the important functions of cyberspace is to provide people and devices with access to global infocommunication resources, and as the network infrastructure develops, the number of access options increases, including those based on wireless technologies. A wide variety of access technologies leads to the formation of heterogeneous broadcast networks. Following the concept of Always Best Connected and striving for rational use of access network resources, developers use Vertical Handover procedures today. This approach assumes the existence of a selection criterion that allows you to prefer a particular network to other networks from the number of available and able to provide the required connection and services, and a selection procedure that implements the process of calculating the characteristics of access in each of the acceptable options. When implementing a vertical handover, it should be taken into account that the rational choice depends on the moment of time and point of space at which the terminal device developed a request to establish a connection. The corresponding procedures can be implemented in accordance with decentralized or centralized architectures. In the first case, the choice is made by hardware and software of terminal devices. The disadvantage of this implementation is the complexity and, as a result, the rise in price of terminal devices, each of which requires a corresponding complexity of the selection procedure of the performance and memory reserve. Another negative consequence of the decentralized approach is a decrease in the last-mile network utilization rate due to the inability to make complex decisions. The article discusses the centralized architecture of access protocols to global infocommunication resources. In accordance with it, the access network is selected by a new centralized network device that was not previously used on communication networks. The protocols that this network element implements should be located between the first (physical) and second (channel) levels of the open system interaction model. The purpose of the study is to develop an effective architectural solution for access networks and create a mathematical model for evaluating the efficiency of using the last mile resources and the quality of user service. The object of research is architectural solutions for last-mile networks. The subject of research is models of the theory of tele-traffic that allow us to evaluate the qualitative characteristics of the corresponding process. To achieve this goal the following tasks were solved in the article: analysis of known approaches to selecting one of several available access networks; development of a centralized architecture that changes the basic model of interaction between open systems; description of the metadata exchange scenario between network elements of the new architecture; development of a mathematical model of the data transmission process in the access radio network; conducting numerical estimates of the probabilistic and temporal characteristics of the proposed procedures.
Highlights
This article is based on the materials of the report that was made by the authors at MICSES-2019 in December 2019 and published in proceedings of MICSES-2019 [1].An important purpose of cyberspace is to support the ability of people and devices to access global infocommunication resources
This study suggests another alternative approach to selecting a last mile access radio network-a centralized approach based on the implementation of a heterogeneous access network architecture of the aggregation device (AD)–access network aggregator
The developed centralized access network architecture differs from the known ones by using special protocols located between the physical and channel levels of the reference model of open systems interaction, which allows solving the problems of vertical handover using a new network element-a hardware and software aggregator, simplifying the schemes of terminal devices and increasing the use of networks in the last mile
Summary
An important purpose of cyberspace is to support the ability of people and devices to access global infocommunication resources. Since the beginning of our century, there has been an appearance and growth in the number of different options for accessing infocommunication resources, due to the development of network infrastructure. The wide range of access radio networks available to the terminal device at the last mile [2]. Made it possible for the terminal to refuse at any time and at any point in space from an already established network connection, and switch to using the resources of another access radio network that is more suitable for transmitting current traffic. The terminal device can simultaneously communicate with multiple radio networks of access and use of their network resources
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