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Location Management in Mobile Environments

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Communication overheads; Location management; Mobility; Paging

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Location management in a personal communication service (PCS) network environment deals with the problem of tracking mobile users. A cellular wireless service area is composed of a collection of cells, each serviced by a base station (BS). A number of base stations are wired to a mobile switching center (MSC). The backbone of a PCS network consists of all these BSs, MSCs, and the existing wired network (such as PSTN, ISDN, etc.) between them. This MSC acts as a gateway for the base stations.

In order to route an incoming call to a PCS user, his (or her) whereabouts in the cellular network need to be determined within a fixed time, which may be specified as a QoS (Quality of Service). Location management as a whole involves two kinds of activities. A mobile station (MS) can report his presence as soon as it enters a new location area. This activity, initiated by the MS to limit the search space, is called...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Ratul kr. Majumdar & Krithi Ramamritham

  2. Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

    Ming Xiong

  3. Google, Inc., New York, NY, USA

    Ming Xiong

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  1. Ratul kr. Majumdar
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Correspondence to Ratul kr. Majumdar .

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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Majumdar, R.k., Ramamritham, K., Xiong, M. (2018). Location Management in Mobile Environments. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80811

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