Title :
The design of location areas in a GSM-network
Author_Institution :
DeTeMobil, Bonn, Germany
Abstract :
The operator of a cellular radio network of the GSM-standard has to group the cells of the network to location areas. When a mobile station in idle mode changes from one cell to the other the mobile station informs the network of its change only if the new cell belongs to a different location area. When an incoming call arrives, a paging message needs only be sent in those cells belonging to the location area where the mobile station has last performed location updating. The operator has to balance the amount of paging messages with the amount of location updatings. We present an algorithm for the design of location areas which has been developed for the German GSM-network D1 operated by the DeTeMobil
Keywords :
cellular radio; digital radio; tracking; DeTeMobil; GSM-network; German GSM-network D1; algorithm; cellular radio network; idle mode; location areas design; location updating; mobile station; paging message; Algorithm design and analysis; Area measurement; Broadcasting; Communication system traffic control; Downlink; Intelligent networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Shape measurement; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1995 IEEE 45th
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2742-X
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1995.504993
