Research Article

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

Table 6

Standard parameters (Sections 2.2 and 2.3).

Symbol Definition Size

GTP-U header B
GTP-C header B
If GTP Create Session Request message B
If GTP Create Session Response message B
If GTP Modify Bearer Request message B
If GTP Modify Bearer Response message B
PMIPv6 tunnel header B
If PMIPv6 Gateway Control Session Request message B
If PMIPv6 Gateway Control Session Response message B
If PMIPv6 Proxy Binding Update message B
If PMIPv6 Proxy Binding Acknowledge message B