Principles of distributed database systems
Principles of distributed database systems
Concurrent online tracking of mobile users
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
Optimization of a database hierarchy for mobility tracking in a personal communications network
Performance '93 Proceedings of the 16th IFIP Working Group 7.3 international symposium on Computer performance modeling measurement and evaluation
Routing in cellular mobile radio communications networks
Routing in communications networks
User profile replication for faster location lookup in mobile environments
MobiCom '95 Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Local anchor scheme for reducing location tracking costs in PCNs
MobiCom '95 Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A mobile user location update and paging mechanism under delay constraints
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Optimization of wireless resources for personal communications mobility tracking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Movement-based location update and selective paging for PCS networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Database architectures and location strategies for mobility management in mobile radio systems
Multiaccess, mobility and teletraffic for personal communications
A survey of routing techniques for mobile communications networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: routing in mobile communications networks
Mobile users: to update or not to update?
Wireless Networks
Minimizing the average cost of paging under delay constraints
Wireless Networks
Comparative Models of the File Assignment Problem
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems
Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems
The GSM System for Mobile Communications
The GSM System for Mobile Communications
Paging Strategies for Future Personal Communication Services Network
HiPC '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing
Inter-Operator Roaming Scenarios for Third Generation Mobile Telecommunication Systems
ISCC '97 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '97)
A dynamic location management scheme for next-generation multitier PCS systems
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
On location management for personal communications networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Location management methods for third generation mobile systems
IEEE Communications Magazine
Mobility management incorporating fuzzy logic for heterogeneous a IP environment
IEEE Communications Magazine
IDMP-based fast handoffs and paging in IP-based 4G mobile networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Evaluation of CDMA2000 support for IP micromobility handover and paging protocols
IEEE Communications Magazine
An alternative strategy for location tracking
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Location-dependent query processing: Where we are and where we are heading
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Location management schemes are essentially based on users' mobility and incoming call rate characteristics. The network mobility process has to face strong antagonism between its two basic procedures: location update (or registration) and paging. The location update procedure allows the system to keep location knowledge more or less accurately in order to find the user in case of an incoming call, for example. Location registration also is used to bring the user's service profile near its location and allows the network to rapidly provide the user with services. The paging process achieved by the system consists of sending paging messages in all cells where the mobile terminal could be located. A detailed description of the means and techniques for user location management in present cellular networks is addressed.A network must retain information about the locations of endpoints in the network in order to route traffic to the correct destinations. Location tracking (also referred to as mobility tracking or mobility management) is the set of mechanisms by which location information is updated in response to endpoint mobility. In location tracking, it is important to differentiate between the identifier of an endpoint (i.e., what the endpoint is called) and its address (i.e., where the endpoint is located). Mechanisms for location tracking provide a time-varying mapping between the identifier and the address of each endpoint. Most location tracking mechanisms may be perceived as updating and querying a distributed database (the location database) of endpoint identifier-to-address mappings. In this context, location tracking has two components: (1) determining when and how a change in a location database entry should be initiated; and (2) organizing and maintaining the location database. In cellular networks, endpoint mobility within a cell is transparent to the network, and hence location tracking is only required when an endpoint moves from one cell to another. Location tracking typically consists of two operations: (1) updating (or registration), the process by which a mobile endpoint initiates a change in the location database according to its new location; and (2) finding (or paging), the process by which the network initiates a query for an endpoint's location (which also may result in an update to the location database). Most location tracking techniques use a combination of updating and finding in an effort to select the best trade-off between update overhead and delay incurred in finding. Specifically, updates are not usually sent every time an endpoint enters a new cell, but rather are sent according to a predefined strategy so that the finding operation can be restricted to a specific area. There is also a trade-off, analyzed formally between the update and paging costs.Location management methods are most adapted and widely used in current cellular networks, e.g., GSM, IS-54. IS-95, etc. The location management methods are broadly classified into two groups. The first group includes all methods based on algorithms and network architecture, mainly on the processing capabilities of the system. The second group contains the methods based on learning processes, which require the collection of statistics on subscribers' mobility behavior, for instance.