Managing terminals mobility for personal communication systems.

by Lee Ying Kit.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-[83]).Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Overview of Personal Communication Systems --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Design issues on PCS --- p.2Chapter 1.2.1 --- Channel allocation --- p.2Chapter 1.2.2 --- Multiple Access --- p.3Chapter 1.2.3 --- Handoffs --- p.4Chapter 1.2.4 --- Location management --- p.6Chapter 1.3 --- Motivation of this thesis --- p.9Chapter 1.4 --- The theme of this thesis --- p.10Chapter 1.4.1 --- Methodology --- p.10Chapter 1.4.2 --- The system model and assumptions --- p.12Chapter 1.4.3 --- Outline of the thesis --- p.13Chapter 2 --- Overview of the traditional location update schemes --- p.15Chapter 2.1 --- Why do we need location registration? --- p.15Chapter 2.2 --- Location registration by Geographic and Time based methods --- p.16Chapter 2.2.1 --- Geographic Based Registration Schemes --- p.16Chapter 2.2.2 --- Time Based Registration Scheme --- p.20Chapter 2.3 --- Peformance Analysis of protocols --- p.20Chapter 2.3.1 --- Analytical Results --- p.22Chapter 2.3.2 --- A Numerical Study --- p.23Chapter 2.4 --- Summary of the results for time and geographic based location update protocol --- p.24Chapter 3 --- The Implementation of Bloom filter on location registration --- p.27Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.27Chapter 3.2 --- The Implementation of Bloom filter on location registration --- p.29Chapter 3.2.1 --- Location Update by Bloom filter --- p.29Chapter 3.2.2 --- Paging algorithm --- p.29Chapter 3.2.3 --- An example --- p.30Chapter 3.3 --- Performance evaluation of the Bloom filter based location update scheme --- p.32Chapter 3.4 --- Summary of the results for Bloom filter based scheme --- p.35Chapter 4 --- One-Bit-Reply protocol --- p.36Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.36Chapter 4.2 --- One-Bit-Reply protocol --- p.37Chapter 4.2.1 --- Grouping of MU's --- p.38Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Update Procedure --- p.39Chapter 4.2.3 --- Paging algorithm --- p.40Chapter 4.3 --- Performance evaluation of the OBR protocol --- p.42Chapter 4.3.1 --- Analytical Results --- p.42Chapter 4.3.2 --- A Simulation Study --- p.43Chapter 4.4 --- Comparison of the location registration schemes - A numerical study --- p.45Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.46Chapter 5 --- A case study - Implementing the OBR protocol on GSM sytems --- p.49Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.49Chapter 5.2 --- The Architecture of Global System for Mobile Communicaitons (GSM) --- p.50Chapter 5.3 --- Location Update Procedure of GSM --- p.51Chapter 5.4 --- Implementing OBR protocol on GSM --- p.52Chapter 5.5 --- Influence of the OBR on the VLR's and HLR --- p.55Chapter 5.5.1 --- Analysis of traditional method --- p.57Chapter 5.5.2 --- Analysis of OBR --- p.58Chapter 5.6 --- Summary --- p.59Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.61Chapter 6.1 --- Summaries of Results --- p.61Chapter 6.1.1 --- Cost functions --- p.61Chapter 6.1.2 --- Optimization of the cost functions --- p.62Chapter 6.1.3 --- Implementation of OBR into GSM --- p.64Chapter 6.2 --- Suggestions for further researches --- p.64Appendix --- p.65Chapter A --- Derivation of cost functions --- p.66Chapter A.1 --- Geographic based scheme --- p.66Chapter A.2 --- Time based scheme --- p.67Chapter A.3 --- Bloom filter based scheme --- p.68Chapter B --- On the optimality of the cost functions --- p.71Chapter B.1 --- Steepest Descent Algorithm for various protocols --- p.71Chapter B.2 --- Bloom filter based scheme --- p.72Chapter B.3 --- Time Based Scheme --- p.74Chapter B.4 --- One-Bit-Reply scheme --- p.75Chapter B.5 --- Geographic Based Scheme --- p.75Chapter C --- Simulation of OBR --- p.77Bibliography --- p.7