Formal approaches to location management in mobile communications

  • Authors:
  • Juanhua Kang;Qin Li;Huibiao Zhu;Wenjuan Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University;Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University;Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University;Department of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University

  • Venue:
  • ICDCIT'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

One characteristic of mobile communications is the location management of mobile devices. If the location of one device changed, the base station will update its location information in time to keep the device still in the range of signal cover. Particularly, if the location changes during a call, a handover process is needed. In this paper, a formal model based on pi calculus was used to describe the mobile communication system. Two properties concerned by users are proposed and given formal description. By analyzing the model’s behavior caused by a valid location change, we proof that it satisfies these properties.