asian institute of medicine, science and technology (aimst)

IPv6 for 3G
Gopinath Rao Sinniah

Asian Institute of Medicine, Science

and Technology (AIMST)

Towards IPv6 Globalisation

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Evolution of Spectrum Combines a mobile phone, laptop and tv

Features :
-Phone call/fax
- global roaming
Digital mobile phone -High-speed web
Features : -Videoconferencing
-Phone call -TV streaming
- voice mail
Speed : 144 kbps 2Mbps
- sms
Speed : 10kbps

4G
2.5G 3G ???
2G

Best technology now widely available

Features :
-Phone call/fax
- voice mail
- send & receive large email messages
-Web browsing
-Navigation / maps
-News updates

Speed : 64 144 kbps

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3G Spectrum allocations
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3G System Capabilities

Interoperability and roaming

Common billing / user profiles:
Sharing of usage/rate information between
service providers
Standardized call detail recording
Standardized user profiles
Capability to determine geographic
position of mobiles and report it to both the
network and the mobile terminal
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Basic 3G Services

Multimedia
integration of music, video and voice such as

video-phones, video-on-demand and MMS

(already available)

Location-based services
exp. Map guide to nearest destination
similar like GPS technology

M-commerce
e-commerce to mobile terminals, exp. Ordering
goods, checking bank account
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3G System Capabilities
WCDMA - Capability to support circuit and
packet data at high bit rates
W-CDMA

Source :
http://www.3g-generation.com
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Examples of 3G applications

Scenario 1 Ah!. Its an old

presentation
Let me get the new
presentation using my
New presentation is sent
3G phone.
by his colleague from the
office. It is downloaded
into his 3G terminal and
transferred to his laptop
(wireless)
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Scenario 2 A busy executive doing her grocery shopping

Shopping hasnt had time to queue at a teller machine, but
cash is not needed. At the check-out, she uses
her 3G terminal to pay for the groceries. It
automatically debits her bank account, and
gives her an updated balance on request.

A young traveller has once again missed the train.

Scenario 3 - Luckily, he has downloaded some of his favorite
Travelling music from a web store. He's also got a pair of
stereo headphones to use with the communication
device. Seeing that one of his friends is on-line, he
invites the friend to a peaceful game of chess.
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Preparing towards 3G

Web must be compressed

Wireless Markup Language (WML)
cHTML
Video compression (MPEG4)
Terminal handover management
IPv6 header eliminated in Voice (ROHC)
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Why IPv6 ?

Address space problem

Projected 1 billion mobiles by 2005
Not enough IPv4 addresses especially in Asia
Exmp. In China, there are 8 million IPv4 address and
50+ million handsets
IPv6 addresses - 340 undecillion addresses
(340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456).
We can address the terminals
Eliminate the use of NAT
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Why IPv6 ?

Security built in
IPv6 includes packet encryption and source
authentication (IPsec)
Extension header (AH & ESP)
Autoconfiguration
Stateful (DHCP)
Stateless
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Why IPv6 ?

Quality of Service (QoS) for real time

services
DiffServ and IntServ applicable for both IPv4
and IPv6
20 bit flow label for QoS
IP Mobility
Part of IPv6 (MIP6)
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IPv6 status for cellular telephony

Has been mandated for 3GPP

MWIF recommendation for IPv6
IETF design team designated for
fast/smooth/seamless handover
Smooth evolusion from GPRS
ROHC WG considering header
compression
Mobile IPv6 should be mandated after
Proposed Standard
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IPv4 to IPv6 transition in 3GPP

GPRS Scenario

Dual Stack UE connecting to IPv4

and IPv6 nodes Dual IPv4 / IPv6 stack

IPv6 UE connecting to an IPv6

node through an IPv4 network
Tunneling
IPv4 UE connecting to an IPv4
node through an IPv6 network

IPv6 UE connecting to an IPv4

node
Translator
IPv4 UE connecting to an IPv6
node
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Dual IPv4/IPv6 Stack

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Tunneling

Tunneling
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Implementation
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PDP contexts to IPv6 links

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IPv6 and 3G

Methods to obtain IPv6 address

Static
Dynamic
Stateless
Stateful using DHCPv6
3G UE has no unique identifier like
Ethernet nodes
Stateless configuration is different in 3G
It is based on PPPv6 configuration
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Static IPv6 address allocation

1
Activate PDP Message
(PDP type=IPv6, PDP address =IPv6 address)
2
Create PDP message

MT SGSN GGSN

3
Create PDP Context
4
Activate PDP Context Response
accept Message
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Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

MT BSS / UTRAN SGSN GGSN

1. Activate PDP Context Request (PDP type = IPv6, PDP Address = empty, )

MT extracts 2. Create PDP Context request

Interface-ID
from the link 3. Create PDP context response (PDP
local address address = link local address, ..)
4. Activate PDP context accept GGSN configured
to advertise only
5. Router Solicitation one network prefix

6. Router Advertisement (M flag = 0, Network Prefix)

Neighbor solicitation
7. Neighbor Solicitation message shall be
discarded by the
8. GGSN initiated PDP context modification procedure GGSN except if part
of the neighbor
unreachability
detection
GGSN updates the
SGSN and MT
with the full IPv6
address
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Recommendation from IPv6 WG to 3GPP

Specify that multiple prefixes may be

assigned to each primary context
Each prefixes must not be assigned to
more than one primary PDP context
Allow 3GPP nodes to use multiple
identifiers within those prefixes, including
randomly generated identifiers
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Quality of Service in 3G
What is QoS ?
A video phone application requires:
The application is compatible with that used by the phoned
party
The cost is not prohibitive
There is a network path available to the other party
The user knows the IP address of the terminal the other
user
The end terminals can reassemble the data packets into a
sensible order
The end terminals understand how to handle errors in
packets
The packets arrived at the minimum length of time
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QoS Management during handover

Illustration of how handover can affect reservation based QoS
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Use of context transfer protocol

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IPv6 QoS for 3G Differentiated Services

DiffServ defines 3 classes

Expedited forwarding (EF)
Assured Forwarding (AF)
Best Effort (BE)
Difference between wireless QoS and
LAN QoS
Performance condition in wireless changes
drastically when terminal is moving
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IPv6 QoS for 3G Differentiated Services

2 level of management
Intracell management managed by Access
router
Intercell management managed by Edge
router
QoS signaling can be encoded part of
IPv6 flow label field but restricted to local
access network
ICMPv6 as second method of signaling
command
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Towards 4G (2007 ~ 2010)

High speed internet access (100Mbps)

Rich content transmission

Research Into..
Electromagnetic compatibility
High-temperature superconductors
Ultra-low-noise technologies

C oM o
D o
NTT
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Summary and Conclusion

Future Internet is largely wireless / mobile

IPv6 addressability needed for billions of
wireless devices
Mobile IPv6 is better and more efficient
than Mobile IPv4
Autoconfiguration is suitable for the mobile
Internet
Security is the key component for success
Seamless handover
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Resources

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) (

http://www.3gpp.org )
http://www.3g-generation.com
3G Newsroom (
http://www.3gnewsroom.com )
Nokia (http://www.nokia.com/ipv6 )
Ericsson (http://www.ericsson.com )
RFC 3314 Recommendation for IPv6 in
3GPP standards
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Thank You

Gopinath Rao Sinniah

gopi@aimst.edu.my

Towards IPv6 Globalisation