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Supporting Service Continuity in Ubiquitous Network Environment with IMS Extension

IMS 확장을 통한 유비쿼터스 네트워크 환경에서의 서비스 연속성 지원

  • 임종철 (한국전자통신연구원 차세대통신연구부문 미래인터넷서비스연구부) ;
  • 배현주 (한국전자통신연구원 차세대통신연구부문 미래인터넷서비스연구부) ;
  • 김상하 (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Received : 2012.10.24
  • Accepted : 2012.12.04
  • Published : 2012.12.28
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Abstract

It is of great significance in the NGN - which supports a ubiquitous network environment in which users can use multiple devices and all the devices are connected to networks - to support the terminal mobility as well as service continuity. The IMS architecture, which is considered as session control layer in the NGN, exists to support a wide range of advanced new services in addition to the traditional voice and data connectivity offerings of "old" telecommunications. The recent IMS specification also defines IUT (Inter UE Session Transfer) functionality in order to support service continuity in the NGN. However, service continuity in IMS has a limitation that two terminals involved in session transfer should belong to the same user. In this paper, we proposed a new device discovery mechanism for IMS and extended UEs with a few capabilities to overcome some of IMS's limitations. We also analysed how much overhead of the proposed method in terms of signaling cost will be.

사용자가 사용할 수 있는 단말이 다수 개가 되고, 수많은 단말들이 네트워크에 연결되는 유비쿼터스 네트워크 환경을 지원하는 NGN에서는 단말 이동성 지원 뿐 만 아니라 서비스 연속성 지원 또한 매우 중요하다. NGN에서는 기본 전화 서비스 뿐 만 아니라 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스를 IMS를 통해 사용자에게 제공한다. NGN에서의 서비스 연속성 지원을 위해 현재의 IMS에서도 단말 간 진행 중인 세션을 이동할 수 있는 이른 바 IUT(Inter-UE Transfer) 기능을 제공하고 있다. 그러나 IMS 서비스 연속성 제공 기능은, 현재 세션을 유지하고 있는 단말 및 세션을 이동할 목표 단말이 모두 같은 사용자의 단말이어야 한다는 한계가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 극복하기 위하여 단말 디스커버리 기능과 IMS UE의 기능을 확장하였고, IMS 확장이 기존 방법에 비하여 얼마나 오버헤드가 생길 것인지 분석하였다.

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