Cell identity assignment techniques in cellular network: A review

Cellular communication has explosive growth in recent years. Today millions of people around the world uses cellular phones. Cellular communication is supported by an infrastructure called a cellular network, which integrates cellular phones into the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Location management is one of the main issues in cellular network. A service coverage area of cellular network is divided into many small small areas which are known as cells. Each cell has its own identity number of its location which is known as cell Id number. Mobile Subscribers find their location from the cell identity of their cells and from cell Id they can also calculate cellular distance. There are different types of techniques existed to assign cell id and to calculate cellular distance. The present paper, different distance based cell id assignment schemes being discussed.