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Journal of Signal and Information Processing, 2012, 3, 402-411 /10.4236/jsip.2012.33053 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsip) Roadmap for Establishing Interoperability of Heterogeneous Cellular Network Technologies -2- Hasni Neji, Ridha Bouallegue Innov’COM Lab, Higher School of Communications, Sup’Com, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Email: hasni.neji63@, ridha.bouallegue@ Received May 8th, 2012; revised June 7th, 2012; accepted June 16th, 2012 ABSTRACT The global project will focus on an eventual establishment of a holistic understanding of cellular communication, and proposing an ontological approach that expresses the domain’s concepts, classes, and properties in a formal and unam- biguous way. However, this ongoing step is about making heterogeneous network technologies explicit and highlighting their commonalities and variabilities. It begins by studying three different cellular technologies, one from each genera- tion (2G, 3G and 4G). After the analysis of Lte-advanced—a fourth generation technology—subject of the first paper [1], Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) cellular network—a third generation technology—is the target of this current analysis. The final objective sought is to build Ontology capable of providing a common view of cellular network technologies. Keywords: UMTS; Interoperability; Ontology; Feature Modeling; UML 1. Introduction connection like the connection from a mobile device to the internet. UMTS introduces a new wireless access As a tentative to overcome the challenges stemming from technology, namely the wideband code division multiple the lack of interoperability between heterogeneous cellu-