Redundancy Technologies for Mobile Communication Networks
Feng Liu · ZTE communications · 2008
With the growing popularization of mobile communication services, a growing demand for better Quality of Service (QoS) arises from the subscribers. An uninterrupted service provided with the network after a node failure is also expected from operators. To achieve this, duplex backup and even multiplex backup have been gradually introduced into the network. Among redundancy techniques, dual-home and IuFlex are more successful. Dual-home is a typical duplex backup system with activation of the backup server after the host server failure. IuFlex is one of the multi-backup techniques with overhead transference to other node in switching pool after single switching node failure.