Call performance for a PCS network

Yuguang Fang*, I. Chlamtac, Yi-Bing Lin

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Abstract

It is well known that, due to the mobility of a portable and limited channel availability, calls of portables may not be completed due to being blocked or terminated during the call initiation or the handover process. The characteristics of the call-completion and call-holding times for both a complete call and an incomplete call are of critical importance for establishing the actual billing process in the PCS network. In this paper, we derive the call-completion probability (hence, call-dropping probability) and the effective call-holding time distributions for complete/incomplete calls with a general cell-residence time and a general call-holding time are analyzed, and general computable formulas are obtained. We show that when call-holding times are Erlang distributed, easy-to-compute formulas for the probability of a call completion and the expected effective call-holding times for both a complete call and an incomplete call can be derived.

Original languageEnglish
Article number634795
Pages (from-to)1568-1581
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Volume15
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1997

Keywords

  • Call blocking
  • Call pricing
  • Call-holding time
  • Cell residence
  • PCS

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