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An adaptive location management scheme for mobile broadband cellular systems

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This paper presents an adaptive location management strategy that considers both location updating and paging by evaluating realistic mobility patterns. It proposes the design of an adaptive macro-location area based on multi-registration adapted to the terminals’ trajectory to reduce location updates. The solution includes an estimation of residence probabilities in the areas of the multi-registered list. This facilitates the design of a sequential paging scheme that reduces the average paging cost. Results show the capability of the solution to adapt to mobility patterns and traffic conditions in the network to minimize the overall location cost. Furthermore, the multi-registration approach and the reduced complexity in both network infrastructure and mobile terminals make the solution suitable for new packet-based broadband cellular systems.

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    María Canales, José Ramón Gállego, Ángela Hernández & Antonio Valdovinos

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Canales, M., Gállego, J.R., Hernández, Á. et al. An adaptive location management scheme for mobile broadband cellular systems. Telecommun Syst 52, 299–315 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-011-9665-3

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