DocumentCode :
1113189
Title :
Two user location strategies for personal communications services
Author :
Mohan, Seshadri ; Jain, Ravi
Author_Institution :
Network Archit. & Anal. Res. Lab., Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA
Volume :
1
Issue :
1
fYear :
1994
Firstpage :
42
Lastpage :
50
Abstract :
The vision of nomadic personal communications is the ubiquitous availability of services to facilitate the exchange of information between nomadic end users independent of time, location, on access arrangements. To realize this, it is necessary to locate users who move from place to place. The strategies commonly proposed are two-level hierarchical strategies, which maintain a system of home and visited databases/spl mdash/home location register (HLR) and visitor location register (VLR)/spl mdash/to keep track of user locations. Two standards exist for carrying out two-level hierarchical strategies using HLRs and VLRs. The standard commonly used in North America is the Electronics Industry Association/Telecommunications Industry Association (EIA/TIA) Interim Standard 41 (IS-41), and in Europe the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). The authors introduce these two strategies for locating users and provide a tutorial on their usage. Different forms of mobility in the context of PCS and a reference model for a PCS architecture are discussed. The user location strategies specified in the IS-41 and GSM standards are described, and then, using a simple example, a simplified analysis of the database loads generated by each strategy is presented. Also briefly discussed are possible modifications to these protocols that are likely to result in significant benefits by reducing query and update rate to databases and/or reducing the signaling traffic.<>
Keywords :
digital radio systems; mobile radio systems; personal communication networks; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; Electronics Industry Association/Telecommunications Industry Association Interim Standard 41; GSM; Global System for Mobile Communications; HLR; IS-41; PCS; VLR; architecture; database loads; home location register; nomadic personal communications; personal communications services; protocols; query rate; signaling traffic; two-level hierarchical strategies; update rate; user location strategies; visitor location register; Availability; Communication industry; Communication standards; Databases; Electronics industry; Europe; GSM; North America; Personal communication networks; Telecommunication standards;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Personal Communications, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1070-9916
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/98.295359
Filename :
295359
Link To Document :
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