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The FMCA is planning to introduce a new
work item around 802.21. If you are interested in participating
please contact the FMCA. Best Regards -Vivek From:
emma.dixon@bt.com [mailto:emma.dixon@bt.com] Dear Convergence and Devices Working Group
Colleagues, I am
writing to you with a proposal to introduce a new work item into the
Convergence and Devices Working Group. I have attached the proposal for
you to consider and feedback your views as to your organisations interest in
being involved in this exciting work item. The potential of this work
item is currently being developed by FMCA members Korea Telecom and
BT, along with other non-members. This
is an excellent opportunity as 802.21 – Media Independent handover
is an emerging standard in heterogeneous handover. The
first implementation was demonstrated at the Intel Developer’s Forum
(IDF) in As
our work has developed there has been more and more interest in further
collaboration from other operators and vendors. The ultimate goal would be a
user trial to measure the performance of 802.21 in a realistic environment and
determine its possibilities for commercial deployment. •
What has been achieved so far: –
Collaboration between BT ( –
Have implementation of events, information
services and connection management based on current version of the (draft)
802.21 standard to assist seamless handovers among heterogeneous access
networks. –
Seamless handovers between WLAN, WiMAX, 3G and
LAN –
Demonstrator shown at Intel Developer’s
Forum (IDF) last September and to be shown at the Mobile World Congress
(formerly 3GSM) in February –
Initial performance results for battery savings
and seamlessness of handovers •
What would like to be achieved within the
FMCA –
Convenient framework to allow other interested
parties to join collaboration (Interdigital, Korea Telecom …) –
Initial goal could be an interoperability
event: •
Test different 802.21 implementations (based on
the current standard) with each other and determine the best subset of
functionality required (profile) –
End goal could be a 802.21 user trial. The aim of
this trial would be to measure the performance of 802.21 in a realistic
environment and determine its possibilities for commercial deployment –
All collaboration partners (Intel, Nokia, NSN
and Interdigital) very keen to participate in June FMCA interoperability event •
All met F2F with BT last week at 3GSM (MWC) and
confirmed their interest We
hope that you will find this proposal an exciting opportunity. Please consider
the documentation and feedback to your opinions and contributions to emma.dixon@thefmca.com -
there will be a specific agenda item at the Product Review Session in June to
review this potential work item. Kind
regards, |
FMCA Technical Contribution_templatedoc- mih d3.doc