Trial Results of Intelligent Paging in GERAN

Author

Wang, J. ; Zhang, H. ; Toril, M. ; Wille, V.

Author_Institution

China Mobile Group Beijing Co., Beijing

Volume

11

Issue

10

fYear

2007

fDate

10/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

829

Lastpage

831

Abstract

In cellular networks, location managements has a strong impact on signaling load. To minimise mobility-based signaling traffic. Location Areas (LAs) have to be defined correctly. Large LAs increase paging traffic, while small LAs increase location updates. Thus, operators have to trade-off these two constraints to maximize network performance. Several authors have proposed selective paging to reduce paging load. This paper describes an intelligent paging algorithm based on most-recent interaction data. Trial results in a live GSM-EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) show that the algorithm can reduce paging traffic significantly, while keeping paging success rates almost unaltered.

Keywords

cellular radio; mobility management (mobile radio); radio access networks; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication traffic; GERAN; GSM-EDGE radio access network; cellular networks; intelligent paging; location management; mobility-based signaling traffic; Base stations; Broadcasting; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Load management; Mobile communication; Optimization methods; Quality management; Quality of service; Radio access networks; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2007.070510

Filename

4389801