Call performance for a PCS network

Author

Fang, Yuguang ; Chlamtac, Imrich ; Lin, Yi-Bing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

8

fYear

1997

fDate

10/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1568

Lastpage

1581

Abstract

It is well known that, due to the mobility of a portable and limited channel availability, calls of portables may not be completed due to being blocked or terminated during the call initiation or the handover process. The characteristics of the call-completion and call-holding times for both a complete call and an incomplete call are of critical importance for establishing the actual billing process in the PCS network. We derive the call-completion probability (hence, call-dropping probability) and the effective call-holding time distributions for complete/incomplete calls with a general cell-residence time and a general call-holding time are analyzed, and general computable formulas are obtained. We show that when call-holding times are Erlang distributed, easy-to-compute formulas for the probability of a call completion and the expected effective call-holding times for both a complete call and an incomplete call can be derived

Keywords

personal communication networks; probability; telecommunication channels; Erlang distribution; PCS network; billing process; call completion probability; call dropping probability; call holding time distributions; call initiation; call performance; cell residence time; channel allocation; channel availability; complete call; effective call holding times; handover; incomplete call; portables; Availability; Base stations; Cellular networks; Distributed computing; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Personal communication networks; Pricing; Radio link;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.634795

Filename

634795