Profiling for Mobility Context Management and Transport Service Provision in 4G Networks

Currently, mobile service provision is facing important advancements towards more flexible business models and fresh Internet-like services with the internetworking of several complementary access technologies using the Internet Protocol (IP) as a mean of integration. The result of such integration, also known as "4th Generation Networks", will require the provision of a "persistent transport service" of for users' session flows and transactions. In this paper we present the conceptual high level description of a context-based management distributed service and profiling system in order to provide this persistent transport for mobile user's data applications in a heterogeneous environment of IP-based network.