Transparent Mobility Support for Vertical Handovers

In the next generation of mobile networks multiple accesses will co-exist and complement each other as coverage, as momentary available throughput and as operational cost. In order to be able to offer a seamless service to the mobile users at a comparable experience with the fixed communication, seamless vertical handovers, transparent to the service platforms and with a small impact on the mobile devices are required.

OpenEPC provides the means to seamlessly handover the active sessions of a mobile device between the different access network. The effect of vertical handovers can be show-cased separately or together with the Always Best Connected scenario using the OpenEPC applications: real-time applications including video streaming as an IMS service, as a plain SIP service and as Internet service (through the web browser).