Abstract

This paper addresses the requirement for a congestion control mechanism, in order to efficiently handle paging traffic over cellular networks. The standard simultaneous paging approach can easily result in congestion, for relatively small values of the offered load. Instead of differentiating paging capacity based on the incoming load, this approach is more oriented towards a limited-resource system. Considering that a paging channel usually experiences high and low utilization periods, it is proposed to differentiate the paging mechanism according to the processed load. Given medium or even mild overload conditions, several forms of sequential paging substantially decrease blocking probabilities, while presenting good delay behavior. Based on a queueing analysis, we are able to quantitatively estimate potential improvements, and point out the basic points of such an adaptive scheme. Document type: Part of book or chapter of book

Abstract

This paper proposes to extend Mobile IP with adaptive individual paging. Paging reduces the signaling cost of Mobile IP making it more adapted to wireless cellular IP networks. By reducing the number of location updates to be sent per mobile host, paging also minimizes power consumption of the mobile devices. In the proposed extension, each mobile host computes dynamically its optimal location area size according to its traffic and mobility parameters. The optimal size is the size that provides the best paging versus location update cost tradeoff and, as a result, minimizes the signaling load in the network. We compare, by simulation, the performance of the proposed scheme with that of Mobile IP \\citeMIP, a paging scheme that uses fixed size location areas and Hierarchical Mobile IP \\citeCas98TR. We show that our extension provides a significant gain compared to Mobile IP and the fixed size paging scheme and performs as well and sometimes better than Hierarchical Mobile IP. We also show that the integration of adaptive individual paging within Hierarchical Mobile IP outperforms all scheme Document type: Report