Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
An Architecture for Integrating UMTS and 802.11 WLAN Networks
Kemer-Antalya, Turkey
June 30-July 03
ISBN: 0-7695-1961-X
Cellular networks, e.g. UMTS, provide voice and data services to mobile users. In hot spots where users need high speed data services operators can deploy low-cost high-speed WLANs, e.g. 802.11, to cover hot-spots. This paper proposes a possible architecture of integrating UMTS and 802.11 WLAN. The architecture allows a mobile node to maintain data (PS) connection through WLAN and voice (CS) connection through UMTS in parallel. This is especially attractive because WLAN is currently used primarily for high-speed best-effort data service only.