Contrary to a datacommunications network, a telecommunications network logically comprises two networks: a transport and a signaling network. The transport network carries voice traffic, while the signaling network carries the control information that is needed for the administration and supervision of calls, and the administration of the telecommunications network itself. Traditionally, signal...

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a novel transport layer mobility management scheme: Seamless IP diversity based Generalized Mobility Architecture (SIGMA). SIGMA provides seamless handover for mobile hosts and is based on SCTP, which is a new reliable transport protocol introduced by IETF to transport SS7 signaling messages over IP network. We also show that our handover scheme can greatl...

In this study, we investigated a signalling load control mechanism for SIP server networks and developed a corresponding queuing model. The so-called hop-by-hop overload control, known from recent IETF drafts and RFCs, was considered and a similar buffer overload control scheme which was developed for the SS7 signalling link in ITU-T Recommendation Q.704, was proposed. The mechanism is based on...

Self-similar traffic distributions have been observed in a wide range of networking applications and models such as LANs, WANs, telnet, FTP, WWW, ISDN, SS7 and VBR traffic over ATM. Therefore, it has been suggested that many other theoretical protocols and systems need to be reevaluated under this different type of traffic before practical implementations potentially show their faults. The Serv...

Networks exist to provide services to users. Increasingly, the networks on which the services reside are not the same as the networks from which the services are accessed. This leads to the problem on how to best provide such services transparently when the access protocols differ. We discusses a methodology to make available the existing services residing in a network whose protocols are disti...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new general purpose transport protocol defined by the IETF. Originally intended for the transport of voice signaling data (SS7) over IP networks, SCTP together with newly defined extensions is increasingly considered for other application scenarios as well. These require strong security solutions to authenticate the communication partners and...