An H.323 Gatekeeper Architecture Providing Handoff function

핸드오프를 지원하는 H.323 게이트키퍼 구조

H.323 proposes to use Mobile IP and H.323 ad hoc conference signaling to provide Handoff function to an H.323 mobile terminal. But the H.323 ad hoc conference signaling has a drawback. It requires an H.323 terminal to do a complex conference signaling which takes a longer signaling time. In this paper, we propose an GK architecture that provides Handoff function effectively using 3$^{rd}$ P'||'||'||'||'||'&'||'||'||'||'||'R(Third party initiated Pause and Rerouting) signaling which are done through H.245 logical channel. The GK which is implementing 3$^{rd}$ P'||'||'||'||'||'&'||'||'||'||'||'R signaling only requires an H.323 endpoint to do the H.323 basic signaling in reestablishing media channel and gives the faster Handoff signaling. To do this, our GK has derived H.245 control channel using tunneling f3r all H.323 calls including the fast connect calls which enable terminals communicate each other if they doesn't have H.245 control channel .municate each other if they doesn't have H.245 control channel .