LeZi-update: an information-theoretic framework for personal mobility tracking in PCS networks

  • Authors:
  • Amiya Bhattacharya;Sajal K. Das

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX and ACM SIGMOBILE and IEEE TCPP

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Networks - Selected Papers from Mobicom'99
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The complexity of the mobility tracking problem in a cellular environment has been characterized under an information-theoretic framework. Shannon's entropy measure is identified as a basis for comparing user mobility models. By building and maintaining a dictionary of individual user's path updates (as opposed to the widely used location updates), the proposed adaptive on-line algorithm can learn subscribers' profiles. This technique evolves out of the concepts of lossless compression. The compressibility of the variable-to-fixed length encoding of the acclaimed Lempel---Ziv family of algorithms reduces the update cost, whereas their built-in predictive power can be effectively used to reduce paging cost.