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DYNAMIC NEIGHBOUR TRUST INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR GLOBAL ROAMING<br />

4.7 Conclusion<br />

In this chapter, a network trust <strong>in</strong>formation retrieval scheme for global seamless<br />

roam<strong>in</strong>g is presented. To the best of the author’ knowledge, it is the first of its k<strong>in</strong>d that<br />

addresses the seamless roam<strong>in</strong>g problem <strong>in</strong> a multi-operator environment. The proposed<br />

scheme makes use of a mobile user’ mobility and handover process to exchange<br />

network trust <strong>in</strong>formation between neighbour<strong>in</strong>g networks without any direct<br />

communication. In this way, a network can build up its neighbour network trust pattern.<br />

As a result, a mobile user would no longer need to carry network trust <strong>in</strong>formation for<br />

roam<strong>in</strong>g with it all the time, e.g. resort<strong>in</strong>g to a locally cached network identifier list. The<br />

network trust <strong>in</strong>formation related to neighbour<strong>in</strong>g networks can be dynamically<br />

provided by the serv<strong>in</strong>g network.<br />

To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, a series of simulations have been<br />

conducted. The simulation results show that the proposed trust <strong>in</strong>formation retrieval<br />

scheme can function <strong>in</strong> a cost-effective manner, generat<strong>in</strong>g an additional signall<strong>in</strong>g<br />

overhead of 3.7% on networks compared with the standard handover signall<strong>in</strong>g cost.<br />

Moreover, it was shown that one mobile user per network would be sufficient to<br />

establish a complete network trust pattern <strong>in</strong> most cases when the proposed scheme is<br />

widely deployed <strong>in</strong> networks. For real deployment, this makes sure that its<br />

implementation would not be a burden for networks <strong>in</strong> operation. It was found that the<br />

time needed for construct<strong>in</strong>g neighbour trust pattern can be speeded up by <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the number of mobile users <strong>in</strong>volved.<br />

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