Modeling of Terminal Mobility to Evaluate the Number of Location Updates

Abstract: Since mobile user mobility behaviors can vary according to time periods, e.g. office-going/closing and office hours, the location management traffic load for tracking user positions is also a function of time. The transient characteristics of location management traffic vary according to users' initial starting positions. In this paper, we propose a mobile user mobility model considering office-going/closing and office hours for evaluating the effect of user mobility on the performance of mobile networks. We analyze the transient characteristics of a mobile network in terms of the mean location update rate.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Min Young Chung, Tai Suk Kim, Ho Shin Sho, Dan Keun Sung
• Keywords: Communications, ICC 1997, Location Management Traffic, Mobile User Mobility, User Mobility Behaviors