3G and Internet Protocols Integration (Computer

Networking)

In the Next Generation Network (NGN), all networks are speculatively expected to be
converged to create a ubiquitous communicating environment that will enable one to
avail seamless multimedia communication from any internet connectivityenabled device
to another in any network.
In this convergence, gateway is the key element in the network to enable ubiquitous
communication. This thesis discusses about the special effort for the design and
implementation of a unique PC-to-3G video call gateway for universal multimedia
communication along with its supporting soft reduced-SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
client. In 3G circuit switched network, 3G-324M umbrella protocol stack has been
adopted by 3GPP for supporting video conversation. 3G-324M consists of two core
components

ITU-T

H.245

(for

call

control)

and

ITU-T

H.223

(for

packet

multiplexing/demultiplexing). Meanwhile, SIP is the commonly used session initiation

protocol for multimedia communication in IP network performing similar functions as
H.245.

The thesis particularly aims at designing a 3G-IP gateway which is robust and efficient
enough to support both IP and 3G technologies and to handle incredibly high call traffic.
Although 3G-324M protocol stack is sufficiently efficient enough for handling a single
call session, translating H.245 messages into PER binary stream (and vice versa) and
performing media packets multiplexing and demultiplexing consume quite a huge
amount of system resources if 3G-324M is merged in a gateway environment (for
handling many calls concurrently). These avoidable operations decrease the whole
system performance and create a performance bottleneck and also leave rooms for
researchers to solve these problems. In order to fulfill the requirements of building a
highly robust and efficient gateway and overcoming the mentioned performance
bottleneck, some innovative ideas have been proposed and analyzed in the thesis.
These ideas are briefly introduced as follow:

 A novel approach uses precompile-store-lookup process based on the nature of

H.245 message is proposed for H.245 call control module so as to shorten the
call setup time and to reduce the demand of system resources for each call
session.
An

efficient

direct

data

dispatching

is

proposed

for

H.223

multiplexing/demultiplexing procedure to speed up the message multiplexing

and demultiplexing.
Reduced-SIP is proposed to enable a rapid development of simple SIP-capable
communication tools. By integrating the reduced-SIP to the gateway, cross 3G324M and SIP communication become possible.
The efficient 3G-IP gateway has been successfully designed and tested and is also
robust enough to handle ONE Million calls without any problem. It is also experimentally
verified that the gateway provides the feature of invariant call setup time (typically 5 to
7s for 3G video call initiation) while the conversation quality and after all the QoS is
claimed to be guaranteed. In the meantime, the SIP-based soft client also gives a good
interoperability through a series of intensive experimental tests.

It is widely believed that, by launching this system to the market, the revenue of service
provider will increase by providing handy, creative multimedia services (e.g. mobile TV,
video tour guide, etc.) to end mobile users.