Wireless Networks - Special issue: mobile computing and networking: selected papers from MobiCom '96
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
International Journal of Network Management
Mitigating mobility signaling congestion in LTE by overlapping tracking area lists
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Efficient distributed channel allocation for cellular networks
Computer Communications
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We propose a novel channel management algorithm, called distributed load balancing with selective borrowing (D-LBSB), for cellular mobile networks. As an underlying approach, we start with a fixed channel assignment scheme where each cell is initially allocated a set of local channels, each to be assigned on demand to a user in that cell. The novelty of our D-LBSB scheme lies in handling the hot cell problem because it proposes to migrate unused channels from suitable cold cells to the hot ones through a distributed channel borrowing algorithm. With the help of a Markov model, the probability of a cell being hot and the call blocking probability in a cell are derived. Detailed simulation experiments are carried out in order to evaluate our proposed methodology. Performance comparison reveals that the D-LBSB scheme performs better than a centralized version in an overloaded system, and significantly better than several other existing schemes in terms of call blocking probability, under moderate and heavy loads.