Modeling Concurrent Search in All-IP Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic method for evaluating concurrent search in all-Internet protocol (IP) networks. It is expected that the next-generation Internet will consist of a variety of wireless-access networks. To be independent of wireless-access technology and to reduce the cost of mobility management in a heterogeneous environment, we propose integrating IP Paging with concurrent search, which was originally proposed for homogeneous cellular networks. We focus on the case in which the call-arrival process is general and has stationary independent increments. Since a number of calls could arrive simultaneously, the blocking probability is not equal to the probability with the system that is full. Therefore, we resort to renewal theory to accurately derive the blocking probability. Furthermore, we obtain the throughput, the average system size, and the average system delay. Our analytical results are consistent with simulation results.