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1 Core network aspects

MC-FE Multi-connection Coordination Functional Entity

MMF Multi-connection Media Function
MPC-FE Multi-connection Policy Control Functional Entity

MR-FE Multi-connection Registration Functional Entity
MTC-FE Multi-connection Terminal Control Functional Entity

MUE Multi-connection User Equipment
MUP-FE Multi-connection User Profile Functional Entity
NGN Next Generation Network

PHY Physical layer
RAT Radio Access Technologies

SCF Service Control Functions
SEID Session Identifier
SVID Service Identifier

TCP Transmission Control Protocol
UAP Upper Abstraction Point

UE User Equipment
URL Uniform Resource Locator

Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network
WWAN Wireless Wide Area Network
WWW World Wide Web

5 Conventions

None.

6 Identification of resources and attributes for multi-connection
An MUE has multiple network interfaces to each of its attached access networks such as wired Ethernet LANs,
802.11 LANs, 3G cellular networks, etc. In order to use these multiple interfaces, the MUE needs first to
receive from the network side information on the available resources, such as access network information,
network prefixes, IP addresses, etc., and is required to identify these resources and attributes. These
resources could be received from the multi-connection architecture on the NGN network side as well as from
its own system.
This clause addresses resources and attributes used in the multi-connection environment at the UE side. Also,
resource identifiers are again defined, from the MUE perspective, in order to manage these resources so as
to achieve certain capabilities at the MUE, such as efficient utilization of the network and reliability of the
connection.

6.1 Identification of resources
Figure 6-1 shows the association of the multi-connection architecture functional entities relative to the
general TCP/IP stack.

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