PLUGTESTS THE INTEROPERABILITY SERVICE

FMCA Interoperability Event

 
 
 

This event aims to evaluate the interoperability of products from different vendors implementing MIH (Media Independent Handover) which can be used to perform seamless handovers across different access technologies.

Example use cases for MIH interoperability testing include seamless handover from WiMAX to Wi-Fi or from 3GPP to Wi-Fi. Different types of mobile entities may trigger the handover between these different access technologies.

IEEE 802.21 working group (http://www.ieee802.org/21) has developed interoperability test cases, which will be used for conducting the interoperability test session. The purpose of this test specification (IEEE 802.21 MIH Protocol Detail Test Cases) is to ensure the ability of two or more MIH protocol entities to exchange information and to use this information to correctly perform handovers.

  • Mobile Initiated Handover (MHO) which are test cases for handover initiated by a mobile device and assisted by the network operator;

  • Network-initiated Handover (NHO) which are test cases for handover initiated by the operator and enforced by the mobile node;

  • Information Service (IS) identifies test cases which are related to MIH Information Service; and

  • Protocol Data Unit (PDU) contains the test cases directly derived from the PDUs (IEEE Std 802.21-2008 Clause M8.4)

 

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