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Reducing overhead in movement based dynamic location management scheme for cellular networks

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One of the key issues in cellular mobile communication is to find the current location of mobile terminal (MT) to deliver the services, which is called location management (LM). Much research has been done on dynamic LM that reduced the LM cost up to a large extent. In movement based dynamic LM scheme, the location area is defined in the form of ring of cells for individual user. Whenever an MT visits a cell outside of its current location area (LA), it triggers location update (LU). For this purpose, network must inform the mobile terminal about ID of all the cells present in its current location area. In this paper, a simple way of cell-ID assignment is proposed under which, network sends only the ID of center cell of LA ring to MT and then MT can compute IDs of all other cells in its location area. This saves a significant amount of wireless bandwidth by minimizing the signaling traffic at VLR level and thus reduces the mobility management overhead.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Technocrats Institute of Technology and Science, Bhopal, MP, India

    Vijendra Singh Bhadauria

  2. School of Information Technology, University Institute of Technology Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, MP, India

    Sanjeev Sharma

  3. Department of Computer Applications, University Institute of Technology Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, MP, India

    Ravindra Patel

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Singh Bhadauria, V., Sharma, S. & Patel, R. Reducing overhead in movement based dynamic location management scheme for cellular networks. Telecommun Syst 57, 1–11 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-013-9767-1

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