IP Design for Mobile Networks [Paperback]

Mark Grayson (Author), Kevin Shatzkamer (Author), Scott Wainner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 158705826X | ISBN-13: 978-1587058264 | Publication Date: June 25, 2009 | Edition: 1

As the cellular world and the Internet converge, mobile networks are transitioning from circuit to packet and the Internet Protocol (IP) is now recognized as the fundamental building block for all next-generation communication networks. The all-IP vision provides the flexibility to deliver cost-effective services and applications that meet the evolving needs of mobile users. RF engineers, mobile network designers, and system architects will be expected to have an understanding of IP fundamentals and how their role in delivering the end-to-end system is crucial for delivering the all-IP vision that makes the Internet accessible anytime, anywhere.

 

IP Design for Mobile Networks discusses proper IP design theory to effectively plan and implement your next-generation mobile network so that IP integrates all aspects of the network. The book outlines, from both a standards and a design theory perspective, both the current and target state of mobile networks, and the technology enablers that will assist the migration. This IP transition begins with function-specific migrations of specific network domains and ends with an end-to-end IP network for radio, transport, and service delivery. The book introduces many concepts to give you exposure to the key technology trends and decision points affecting today’s mobile operators.

 

The book is divided into three parts:

• Part I provides an overview of how IP is being integrated into mobile systems, including radio systems and cellular networks.
• Part II provides an overview of IP, the technologies used for transport and connectivity of today’s cellular networks, and how the mobile core is evolving to encompass IP technologies.
• Part III provides an overview of the end-to-end services network based on IP, including context awareness and services.
• Presents an overview of what mobile networks look like today—including protocols used, transport technologies, and how IP is being used for specific functions in mobile networks
• Provides an all-inclusive reference manual for IP design theory as related to the broader application of IP for mobile networks
• Imparts a view of upcoming trends in mobility standards to better prepare a network evolution plan for IP-based mobile networks 

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

 

 

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About the Author

Mark Grayson is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco with responsibility for leading its mobile architecture strategy. He has more than 15 years of experience in the wireless industry. He holds a first-class honors degree in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham (England) together with a Ph.D in radio communications and has been granted more than 50 patents in the area of mobile communications.

 

Kevin Shatzkamer is a Customer Solutions Architect at Cisco with responsibility for long-term strategy and architectural evolution of mobile wireless networks. He has worked at Cisco and in the mobile wireless industry for nine years, focusing on various technologies ranging from GSM/UMTS to CDMA networks, packet gateway, networkbased services and security, video distribution, Quality of Service, and end-to-end design theory. Kevin has 16 pending patents related to all areas of work. Kevin holds a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Florida and a master’s of business administration from Indiana University.

 

Scott Wainner is a Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, providing design and consulting support for the major U.S. service providers and enterprises. He joined Cisco in 1999 and has led the architectural development of next-generation IP/MPLS services while applying his innovative efforts toward the development VPN technologies and virtualized services. Scott consults with providers in the development of managed services while guiding Cisco in the development of critical IP technologies, such as session-border controllers, virtual private networks, and multimedia distribution systems. His latest development efforts have focused on group-encrypted security architectures for broadcast/multicast content and network virtualization for the enterprise VPN. Scott has most recently started architectural development of integrated services using IP Multimedia Systems. Prior to joining Cisco, Scott was the Director of Product Development at Qwest and Engineering Manager of Global IP Services at Sprint/GlobalOne. He has been active in the networking industry for more than 23 years, including participation in the IETF and IEEE.

Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 1 edition (June 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158705826X
• ISBN-13: 978-1587058264
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #794,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars many current topics, July 4, 2009

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This review is from: IP Design for Mobile Networks (Paperback)

Cisco Press has published many technical books about their products and about networking in general. But this book is a little atypical in that it seems to have far more detailed content. Also and perhaps pleasantly to some readers, the level of detail is not about an exhaustive explanation of the features of some Cisco product. You could construe this book as a timely discourse on numerous industry efforts at the intersection and integration of mobile networking (which is effectively equivalent to the use of cellphones) and the Internet.

One topic bruited about is the use of femtocells to improve cellular reach; especially inside buildings. Three methods are given - WiMax, UTMS and cdma2000. A chapter gives a detailed scrutiny of the latter.

For the Internet, there is much about IPv6. It seems far easier to handle cellphones and the movement of these via IPv6 than shoehorning the problem into IPv4. The reader might be struck by the idea that this, finally, could be what drives a large scale deployment of IPv6.

We also see that within IPv6, advances have been made. There are details of an improved next generation IPv6. Chapter 4 seems to be a key section of the book. Titled "An IP Refresher", it does not just cover the usual beginner's stuff about v4 and v6, but delves into cutting edge material.

Later portions of the book also explain how the 3G and 4G cellphone levels might evolve and tie into the Internet. The text is a useful complement to these recent offerings on 4g - IP for 4G by Wisely, and 4G Roadmap and Emerging Communication Technologies (Universal Personal Communications) by Kim.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of acronyms but a good book, August 26, 2009

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Martin (Los Angeles CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IP Design for Mobile Networks (Paperback)

The book's goal is to provide information on the current and near future state of mobile networks and its evolution to all IP based mobile network. It discusses the key technology trends and concepts for mobile network but it does not provide any recommendation on which technology is the best.

The book assumes that the readers have at least intermediate or advanced level of knowledge on Internet Protocol (IP) and other network technologies such as IP addressing, dynamic routing, multicast, BGP, MPLS, 802.11 wireless networking and basic understanding of Radio Access Networks (RAN). It is mainly written for network engineers looking to design, implement or understand the technology concepts and trends for mobile network.

The book starts with chapter introducing various basic radio technologies such as propagation, modulation, radio degradation mitigation and different access technologies such as TDMA (time division), FDMA (frequency division), CDMA (code division) and the new SDMA (space division). The last one is an emerging technology using the publicly familiar Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques, to increase throughput and coverage.

Then the book jumps into detail discussing the concepts, architecture and performance aspects of various cellular access systems from the legacy Global System for Mobile (GSM), Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) to the current 3G technologies such as High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and Evolution Data Only (EVDO).

The following chapter discusses the future evolution of mobile network to adopt all IP access systems that include Microwave Access (WiMAX) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) which is marketed as 4G system technologies that can support 100 Mbps throughput for mobile users. .

I skipped most of the parts of the chapter that describes basic IP routing protocols and concepts. However, the last part of the chapter is interesting as it describes how the mobile network uses tunneling with encryption to deliver data to mobile user end system without exposing their network core to the internet. This is quite a challenge since mobile IP hosts frequently moves from one routing domain to another.

The last few chapters discuss IP connectivity and evolution to IP based core mobile network and Intelligent Network (IN) which can enforce traffic policies (think QoS) based on subscriber, device or application and the evolution of the framework to IP Multimedia Subsytem (IMS) which allow end to end context awareness to launch services such as VoIP, video delivery and others..

The authors have done a good job covering these various mobile technologies and discussing them in details. It however does not include URL links to web sites so readers can get more detail information. That should not matter since a simple Google search will do the job. The delivery is also rather dry but I believe that is expected for a technical subject like this.

I rate this book 4 out of 5 and recommend the book for people who want to learn more about the design for the Radio Access Networks (RAN).

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Any advanced programmer's library needs this, September 18, 2009

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This review is from: IP Design for Mobile Networks (Paperback)

IP DESIGN FOR MOBILE NETWORKS is a powerful recommendation discussing IP design theory and implementation for mobile networks. Standards and design theory discuss the state and ideal of mobile networks, reviewing how IP is being integrated into these systems and the technologies evolving to embrace IP systems. Any advanced programmer's library needs this.