Dept. of I.T, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 10 October, 2013.
The latest mobile technology must have new features. With the advent of the Internet, the most-wanted feature is better, faster access to information. Cellular subscribers pay extra on top of their basic bills for such features as instant messaging, stock quotes, and even Internet access right on their phones. To support such a powerful system, we need pervasive, high-speed wireless connectivity. A number of technologies currently exist to provide users with high-speed digital wireless connectivity; Bluetooth and 802.11 are examples. The introduction of 4G has widened the scope of mobile communication. Now mobile is not only a device used for talking but it's more or less a portable computer that can serve different purposes. 4G offers higher data rates with seamless roaming. The mobile user can communicate without any disturbance while switching his coverage network. 4G is still passing through research and therefore there are some problems that need to be fixed in order to benefit the users from it fully. In this report we discuss various challenges 4G is facing and solutions to those problems are discussed. We propose our own way of improving QoS in 4G by using combination of mobility protocol SMIP and SIP. We propose that by using such scheme we can achieve better QoS during the process of handover.
4G resp 3G: 4th (resp. 3rd) Generation, CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access, MIMO: Multiple Input Multiple Output, QoS: Quality of Service, OFDMA: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, MANET: Mobile Ad-Hoc Network