Modeling and analysis of mobility management in mobile communication networks

ScientificWorldJournal. 2014:2014:250981. doi: 10.1155/2014/250981. Epub 2014 May 5.

Abstract

Many strategies have been proposed to reduce the mobility management cost in mobile communication networks. This paper studies the zone-based registration methods that have been adopted by most mobile communication networks. We focus on two special zone-based registration methods, called two-zone registration (2Z) and two-zone registration with implicit registration by outgoing calls (2Zi). We provide a new mathematical model to analyze the exact performance of 2Z and 2Zi. We also present various numerical results, to compare the performance of 2Zi with those of 2Z and one-zone registration (1Z), and show that 2Zi is superior to 2Z as well as 1Z in most cases.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cell Phone*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Mathematics
  • Mobile Applications*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Probability