ICEBERG: Internet-based core for CEllular networks BEyond the thiRd Generation

• The Challenge

  • Developing service intensive, network-based, real-time applications
  • Securely embedding computational resources in the switching fabric
  • Providing an open, extensible network environment: heterogeneity

• Computing

  • Encapsulating legacy servers and partitioning “thin” client functionality
  • Scalability: 100,000s of simultaneous users in the SF Bay Area

• High BW IP backbones plus diverse access networks

  • Different coverage, bandwidth, latency, and cost characteristics
  • Third generation cellular systems: UMTS/IMT2000
  • Next generation wireless LANs: Bluetooth
  • Home networking: DSL / Cable modem

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