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User initiated fast identity switch between LTE UEs

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2015 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT), page 1-6. (October 2015)
DOI: 10.1109/AEIT.2015.7415208

Abstract

In the last few years smartphones have increased their capabilities in terms of hardware and software. They are used for many purposes beyond the simple calls and messaging. Presently, industries are focusing on smartphone-devices integration. As a matter of fact, car-smartphone integration is an ever increasing field, even though the car equipments are still used as phone accessories. Our goal is enhancing the user's experience by extending the concept of smartphone interface. We propose a new method where the device itself becomes their new User Equipment (UE) instead of being simply a smartphone interface. Our idea is to transfer all the user profile from the smartphone to the device. In this way, it is possible to use different devices each one having specific characteristics. We are convinced that this paves the way to many new possibilities in term of services. In this paper we propose a method of transferring temporarily the references to the user's identity carried in a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM), from a UE to another one. This is possible by leveraging current interfaces between elements of the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and by exchanging new messages.

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