A simulation study of overflow replacement policies for location management in mobile networks

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-127

  Luo, Ying ^a   Pan, Yi ^a   Li, Jie ^b   Xiao, Yang ^c   Lin, Xiaola ^d  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Call delivery; Database overflow; Least frequent replacement policy; Location update; Mobile network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY;

CALL DELIVERY; DATABASE OVERFLOW; LEAST-FREQUENT REPLACEMENT POLICY; LOCATION UPDATE; MOBILE NETWORKS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942744609     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2004.004662     Document Type: Article

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