The design of location areas in a GSM-network

Author

Plehn, J.

Author_Institution

DeTeMobil, Bonn, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

25-28 Jul 1995

Firstpage

871

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1995 IEEE 45th

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2742-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1995.504993

Filename

504993