Re: [MEXT] Well-known problem with authentication/etc. in wirelessnetworks

[Julien Laganier <[e-mail]>]

Hi Raj,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> On 8/26/11 1:38 PM, "ext Charles E. Perkins" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Thus I am still not sure what the problem is.
>>
>>
>>The problem is that they can't do very effective handovers.
>>Worse, they are designing _per-application_ handover systems.
>>This is wrong by most reasonable engineering standards,
>>regardless on the positive effect it might have for
>>standards junkies and permanent employment for engineers.
>
> Effective handovers between what networks? Handovers within the scope of
> an HSPA or LTE access for example work fine.
> If you are referring to handovers between 3G accesses and wifi (non-3GPP
> access) then yes.
> But the handover performance in such a scenario is hampered by other
> factors such as latency in connectivity and authentication etc.

In the latter (handover between 3GPP and non-3GPP), given that the
source and target system are accessed by different radio systems, I do
not see handover performance has a factor hampering the usability or
desirability of the inter-system handover scheme in use.

--julien