INTELLIGENT NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR FIXED-MOBILE CONVERGENCE SERVICES

Abstract

Recenly, competition in telecommunications markets is increasing rapidly. In

order to survive in the competitive telecommunication markets, service providers

and network operators have to reform their marketing and service delivery

strategies. The Fixed-Mobie Convergence (FMC) is an evolution from both the

technological and network provision point of view. FMC can generally be

achieved at the intelligent network level. Supporting both fixed and mobile

services on the intelligent network architecture, will bring a number of benefits to

operators and customers. In this article, we propose Fixed-Mobile Converged

Intelligent network architecture between fixed network and mobile network via

existing ADSL(Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology. This article

consists of convergence trends, IP access architecture, mapping mechanism for IP

over other technology, 3GPP user plane protocol architecture, and technology

forecasting.