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    Performance Evaluation of Time-Based and Movement-Based Location Update Schemes
    (2006) Bachmaier, Sebastian
    In Personal Communications Service (PCS) networks, location management is a key issue. Mobility tracking operations are executed to maintain known the whereabouts of each mobile terminal. In this work, some modifications on the classical time-based and movement-based registration methods are evaluated. The goal is to provide a unified approach of the time-based and distance-based schemes on one hand, and the movement-based and distance-based strategies on the other hand. Furthermore what is achieved is that the Mobile Terminal sends less location update messages, which results in less contacts with the network and an increase in the uncertainty of the Mobile Terminal position. Although the Mobile Terminal Paging costs are lightly increased, the result is a significant reduction in the Location Update cost, and the net effect is a saving in the total location management cost per call arrival, i.e. the Location Update cost plus the Paging cost. The studied mechanisms will be compared with the original dynamic schemes by means of a performance evaluation method based on software simulation tools and contrasted to an analysis based on Markovian standard tools. The location management costs for all these dynamic policies will be evaluated.