A Comparative Study on Distributed Location Management Strategies in Wireless Networks

  • Hoang Nguyen-Minh
  • Harmen R. van As
Chapter
Part of the IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing book series (IFIPAICT, volume 51)

Abstract

Location management is an essential process in future mobile communicationnetworks. An important issue is an efficient management of the location database. In this paper, the next generation mobile communication networks are proposed to integrate with a TINA-compliant architecture enabling to handle that kind of mobile-specific processes. We consider a distributed location database architecture for location management performing the following strategies: HLD (home location database only), HLD-VLD (HLD with a visited location database), or VLD-CLD (HLD and VLD with a cache location database). This paper discusses design, modelling and the comparison of the mentioned distributed location management strategies. The performance measures used for comparison are communication cost (signalling messages), computational cost (database accesses) and average total cost. For the performance analysis, we assume that the cost of updating a cache pointer and a user profile at CLD/VLD is equal. Results show that the combination of replication with caching scheme (VLD-CLD) performs better than the replication scheme (HLD-VLD) for a very wide range of call-to-mobility ratio (CMR).

Keywords

TINA UMTS Distributed Location Management 
Download to read the full chapter text

References

  1. [1]
    I.F. Akyildiz, J. McNair, J.S.M. Ho, H. Uzunalioglu, and W. Wang, “Mobility Management for Next Generation Wireless Systems”, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 87, No. 8, Aug. 1999, pp. 1347 - 1384.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  2. [2]
    C. Eynard, M. Lenti, A. Lombardo, O. Marengo, and S. Palazzo, “A methodology for the performance evaluation of data query strategies in UMTS”, IEEE JSAC, Vol. 13, No. 5, June 1995, pp. 893 - 907.Google Scholar
  3. [3]
    B.C. Kim, J.S. Choi, C.K. Un, “A new distributed location management algorithm for broadband Personal Communication Networks”, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 44, No. 3, Aug. 1995, pp. 516 - 524.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  4. [4]
    K. Wang, J. Huey, A cost effective distributed location management strategy for wireless networks”, Wireless Networks, Vol. 5, No. 4, Aug. 1999, pp. 287 - 297.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  5. [5]
    N.M. Hoang, H. R. van As, “Connection and Location Management based on a TINA-compliant Architecture for UMTS”, Smartnet’99, Thailand, Nov. 1999.Google Scholar
  6. [6]
    R. Jain, Y.-B. Lin, C. Lo, S. Mohan, “A Caching strategy to reduce Network impact ofPCS”, IEEE JSAC, Vol. 12, No. 8, Oct. 1994, pp. 1434 - 1444.Google Scholar
  7. [7]
    J. Schuringa, “Performance Modeling of Location Management Strategies in Mobile Networks”, Master Thesis 1995, Department of CS, Univ. of Twente.Google Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hoang Nguyen-Minh
    • 1
  • Harmen R. van As
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of Communication NetworksVienna University of TechnologyViennaAustria

Personalised recommendations