標題: A mobility management strategy for GPRS
作者: Lin, YB
Yang, SR
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: general packet radio service (GPRS);mobile network;mobility management (XIM);wireless data
公開日期: 1-Nov-2003
摘要: In general packet radio service (GPRS), a mobile station (MS) is tracked at the cell level during packet transmission, and is tracked at the routing-area (RA) level when no packet is delivered. A READY timer (RT) mechanism was proposed in 3GPP 23.060 to determine when to switch from cell tracking to RA tracking. In this mechanism, a threshold interval T is defined. If no packet is delivered within T, the MS is tracked at the RA level. When a packet arrives, the MS is tracked at the cell level again. However, the RT mechanism has a major fallacy in that the RTs in both the MS and the serving GPRS support node may lose synchronization. This paper considers another mechanism called READY counter (RC) to resolve this problem. In this approach, a threshold K is used. Like the RT approach, the MS is tracked at the cell level during packet transmission. If no packets are delivered after the MS has made K cell crossings, the MS is tracked at the RA level. We also devise an adaptive algorithm called dynamic RC (DRC). This algorithm dynamically adjusts the K value to reduce the location update and paging costs. We propose analytic and simulation models to investigate RC, RT, and DRC. Our study indicates that RC may outperform RT. We also show that DRC nicely captures the traffic-mobility patterns and always adjusts the K threshold close to the optimal values.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2003.819034
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/27418
ISSN: 1536-1276
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.819034
期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume: 2
Issue: 6
起始頁: 1178
結束頁: 1188
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