In search of a theory of mobility management

Author

Rose, Christopher ; Yates, Roy D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

597

Abstract

Modern networks are becoming mobile networks which must accommodate a broad range services with differing mobility characteristics. Consequently, there is an impetus to understand mobility and its effect on communications systems. Of particular interest are the unique stresses imposed by mobile computing and especially mobile computer programs (agents). We propose a theoretical framework for the study of mobility tracking based on user/service/host location probability distributions and show that mobile agents could severely stress the signaling network

Keywords

computer network management; data communication; knowledge based systems; land mobile radio; software agents; telecommunication signalling; tracking; agents; host location probability distributions; mobile agents; mobile computer programs; mobile computing; mobile networks; mobility management; mobility tracking; service location probability distributions; signaling network; user location probability distributions; Communication systems; Computer networks; Costs; Databases; Intelligent networks; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Paging strategies; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3659-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1997.600398

Filename

600398