Quantitative Comparison of the Efficiency and Scalability of the Current and Future LTE Network Architectures

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/wcmc/volume-2017/3938545/figures/3938545.fig.003a.svgz" name="3938545.fig.003a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>GTP and PMIP headers</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/wcmc/volume-2017/3938545/figures/3938545.fig.003b.svgz" name="3938545.fig.003b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>Tunnel updating during handover</td></tr></table>

<div>LTE data and control planes for 3GPP access.</div>

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Figure 3

Figure 3: Quantitative Comparison of the Efficiency and Scalability of the Current and Future LTE Network Architectures 