Title :
Virtual bus architecture for hierarchical cellular systems
Author :
Le Bodic, Gwenaël ; Girma, Demessie ; Irvine, James ; Dunlop, John
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
A hierarchical cellular system is proposed for accommodating a population of mobile users with different mobility profiles. This system employs an interconnection of “virtual buses”, backed with a distributed hierarchical database to support an advanced routing of the signalling and traffic loads. In order to study the system performance a handshake resource negotiation protocol is proposed. The associated signalling traffic combined with mobility management signalling traffic is routed efficiently over the network. Furthermore, two interlayer bandwidth partitioning techniques are presented and evaluated through computer simulations
Keywords :
cellular radio; distributed databases; internetworking; network topology; protocols; system buses; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication traffic; DQDB; LAN; WAN; computer simulations; distributed hierarchical database; handshake resource negotiation protocol; hierarchical cellular systems; interlayer bandwidth partitioning; mobility management; mobility profiles; routing; signalling; signalling traffic; system performance; traffic loads; virtual bus architecture; Bandwidth; Base stations; Cascading style sheets; Load management; Proposals; Protocols; Routing; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2000. PIMRC 2000. The 11th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6463-5
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRC.2000.881545
