Title :
Impact of PCS handoff response time
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
In a personal communications services (PCS) network, the network delay for a handoff request is limited by a timeout period. If the network fails to respond within the timeout period, the handoff call is forced terminated. We study the effect of the network response time on the performance (the call incompletion probability) of a PCS network. Our study indicates that at a small offered load, the network response time has a significant effect on the call incompletion probability. We also observe that the effect of the network response time is more significant if the mobile residence time distribution at a cell has a smaller variance.
Keywords :
cellular radio; delays; personal communication networks; probability; PCS network; call incompletion probability; forced termination; handoff request; handoff response time; mobile residence time distribution; network delay; personal communications services; timeout period; Base stations; Computer networks; Computer science; Councils; Delay effects; Density functional theory; Failure analysis; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Personal communication networks;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4234.649926
