Title
Distance-based Location Management Utilizing Initial Position for Mobile Communication Networks
Abstract
This paper aims at improving the distance-based location management scheme for mobile communication networks. In location management, a mobile terminal (MT) is tracked based on its location-update area (LA). The improvement is brought about by joint optimization of LA center and LA size. For LA center optimization (LCO), we determine the optimal center position of the LA given the initial position of the MT upon each location update. The investigation of optimal LA center has eluded research to date. Based on the popular continuous-time random walk (CTRW) mobility model, we propose an analytical framework that uses a diffusion equation to determine the optimal LA center that minimizes the total cost of location management, consisting of the location update cost and terminal paging cost. This framework allows us to easily model the non- Markovian movement of the MT and evaluate the impact of various measurable physical parameters (such as length of road section, angle between road sections, road section crossing time) and LA center. In particular, we show that proper LA center can significantly reduce the total cost. For example, for the circular LA and low Poisson call-arrival rate, optimizing the LA center alone has the potential of reducing the cost by up to 37%. Joint optimization of the LA center and terminal paging scheme can reduce the cost even further. Simulations results match the theoretical analysis to a gap within 3%, indicating that our theoretical model is very accurate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TMC.2015.2407402
Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile communication,Roads,Mobile computing,Analytical models,Delays,Optimization,Databases
Mobile computing,Computer science,Random walk,Computer network,Mobility model,Paging,Poisson distribution,Total cost,Mobile telephony,Diffusion equation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.44
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qinglin Zhao115826.30
Soung Chang Liew23307237.57
Shengli Zhang347737.16
Yu, Y.480.44