Tae Ro Lee, Sung Won Lee, Chi Geun Han, In Tae Ryoo

The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 2587-2596, Aug. 2000
10.3745/KIPSTE.2000.7.8.2587,   PDF Download:

Abstract

In this paper, we consider ATM-Forum''s WATM(Wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode) based third generation wireless multimedia network environments, where many simplified AP(Access Point)s are managed by one M.E.SW(Mobility Enabled ATM Switch). Also, we propose an efficient paging mechanism for WATM network environments using variable grouping size and dynamic group paging sequence method. Then, we evaluate and analyze the performance of the proposed and conventional methods. That is, most of conventional algorithms such as blanket-polling, sequential-polling, and fixed size grouping method are compared with the proposed variable and dynamic grouping method. Analysis results show that simple blanket-polling paging method shows slightly better performance at low overload environments. However, as the traffic density increases, the proposed method shows better performance than the conventional methods. Main reason of the performance improvements is due to the variable grouping size and MS(Mobile Station) based dynamic paging sequence mechanism. Moreover, the proposed method requires very simple history information about MS, and only last AP information is required. Thus, it is possible to implement efficiently in real world.

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