Performance Evaluation of Location Management in GSM Networks

Author

Yang Jie ; Kadhim, D.J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper examines the performance of locating a mobile station (MS) at a GSM network based on received signal strength (RSS) of practical measurements. Each mobile station can scan RSS measurements of the downlink control channels transmitted by its surrounding base stations. Then these measurements can be used to obtain the MS location by means of calculating algorithm [1]. We measured the received signal strength at the mobile unit and the distance between the mobile terminal and the base station and compared it with the theoretical results to evaluate the performance of location management system through describing the relationship between the practical and calculated received power with respect to the distance. So we have the ability to determine the accuracy of RSS positing method.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; cellular radio; GSM network; MS location; RSS measurements; RSS positing method; downlink control channels; location management; mobile station; mobile terminal; mobile unit; received signal strength; Accuracy; Fading; GSM; Mathematical model; Mobile communication; Position measurement; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2012 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-684-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCOM.2012.6478612

Filename

6478612