A look at tuning your SCTP parameters to detect failures quickly and reduce dropped packets when they happen.
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SCTP Parameter Tuning
Category: RFCs & Standards
5G introduces Network Slicing, or does it? A look at slicing mechanisms widely used in pre-5G networks.
Getting to know IPfilterRules and the Flow-Description AVP
Short messaging can be anything but simple…
A look at non-IP transport for 5G including Ethernet.
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Diff + Wireshark
Comparing packet contents with Wireshark and a diff utility
Peculiar padding problem perplexes poor programmer.
How to find a subscriber location within the network.
Australia is a strange country; As a kid I was scared of dogs, and in response, our family got a dog. This year started off with adventures working with ASN.1 encoded data, and after a week of banging my head against the table, I was scared of ASN.1 encoding. But now I love dogs, and […]
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SCTP Multihoming
A look at SCTP multi-homing in practice.
How SR-IOV and DPDK play into faster performance of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) for 3GPP core networks.
A look at the Confidentiality Algorithms used in 3GPP Networks, MILENAGE, XOR & Comp128
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Cell Broadcast in LTE
A look at how Cell Broadcast is signalling implemented between the MME and CBC in an LTE/EPC network.
A look at the Network Function Repository Function (NRF) in 5G Core
Comparing the Control Plane signalling in 5GC compared to EPC.
How User Plane traffic is handled in 5GC compared to EPC
No talk of Augmented Reality, Holographic Video calls, 5G cities. Just info about real 5G topics for nerds.
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FreeSWITCH WebRTC with sipML5
Using FreeSWITCH to serve WebSocket / WebRTC connections
What the Origin-State-Id AVP does and how it is used to track if a Diameter peer restarts.
A look into the signalling messages between Network elements in an Evolved Packet Core exchanged during the Attach Procedure