Title :
Review of Location Management in Cellular Networks
Author :
Beheshti, Babak D.
Author_Institution :
New York Inst. of Technol., Westbury
Abstract :
Location management is a paramount issue in wireless mobile station communication systems to enable the terminals to continuously receive services when moving from one location to another. In this paper, we study the trends in the latest cellular wireless systems to page terminals, update location area and make handover decisions for a mobile station. Topics covered include static and dynamic location management, dynamic location areas and techniques, future location management developments, location tracking evolution and location management in 3G. It will be shown that location-area based location management methods designed around a profile or history-based direction information offer the best performance, in terms of location management cost, compared to all other alternative approaches while distance based schemes are to be the most efficient ones.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; cellular radio; decision making; mobility management (mobile radio); 3G wireless mobile station communication system; cellular networks; decision making; location management; Base stations; Costs; Design methodology; Intelligent networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Multiaccess communication; North America; Predictive models; Technology management; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, 2007. LISAT 2007. IEEE Long Island
Conference_Location :
Farmingdale, NY
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1302-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1302-7
DOI :
10.1109/LISAT.2007.4312646
