Modeling of terminal mobility to evaluate the number of location updates

Author

Chung, Min Young ; Kim, Tai Suk ; Cho, Ho Shin ; Sung, Dan Keun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

8-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

1266

Abstract

Since mobile user mobility behaviors can vary according to time periods, e.g. office-going/closing and office hours, the location management traffic load for tracking user positions is also a function of time. The transient characteristics of location management traffic vary according to users´ initial starting positions. In this paper, we propose a mobile user mobility model considering office-going/closing and office hours for evaluating the effect of user mobility on the performance of mobile networks. We analyze the transient characteristics of a mobile network in terms of the mean location update rate

Keywords

business communication; cellular radio; telecommunication network management; tracking; initial starting positions; location management traffic load; location updates; mobile user mobility behaviors; office hours; office-closing hours; office-going hours; performance; terminal mobility; tracking; transient characteristics; user mobility; user positions; Cache storage; Databases; Load management; Microcell networks; Mobile communication; Registers; Resource management; Road transportation; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3925-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1997.594994

Filename

594994