Context Awareness in Next Generation of Mobile Core Networks
Clarissa Cassales Marquezan, Kashif Mahmood, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos,, Renan Krishna, Xiaofeng Huang, Xueli An, Daniel Corujo, Filipe Leit\~ao,, Maria Lema Rosas, Hans Einsiedler

TL;DR
This paper proposes a comprehensive context awareness framework for next-generation Mobile Core Networks, enabling richer data generation, reusability, third-party access, and integration with big data for network optimization.
Contribution
It introduces a novel framework with a Context Generation and Handling Function (CGHF) that processes diverse data sources and supports efficient context distribution aligned with 3GPP standards.
Findings
Rich context can optimize control plane decisions
Framework supports reusability and third-party access
Potential for improved network and application services
Abstract
Context awareness is an important enabler for next generation of Mobile Core Networks (MCN). However there exist a number of challenges in this regard. For example how to develop a framework which 1) is able to generate context richer than what is available today; 2) allows reusability of context across the network; 3) provides a mechanism for exposing context to third parties; and 4) can bring together "big data" for mobile core network optimization. In this work, we introduce a context awareness framework addressing the aforementioned challenges but also taking into account the 3GPP standardization activities related to context awareness in MCN. Within this framework we propose Context Generation and Handling Function (CGHF) which generates rich context by processing information from various sources and then handles its distribution through an efficient publish subscribe mechanism. In…
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Taxonomy
TopicsContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Caching and Content Delivery
