Analysis of movement-based registration considering network architecture and general cell residence time

Abstract

This study considers movement-based registration (MBR) with implicit registration, an improved version of original MBR. In order to obtain more accurate registration cost of the MBR, we consider real network architecture in which a mobile network is composed of visitor location registers (VLR), a group of cells. We show that, when the network architecture is considered, the location registration cost increases but the paging cost decreases compared to the case that the network architecture is ignored. Furthermore, we propose an imbedded Markov chain model to reflect call holding time and cell residence time of a mobile station (MS) that may follow a general distribution. Numerical results for various situations are shown to analyze the exact performance of MBR under real network architecture.