Failure restoration of mobility databases for personal communication networks

Yi-Bing Lin*

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Abstract

This paper studies failure restoration of mobility databases for personal communication networks (specifically, VLRs and HLRs). We model the VLR restoration with and without checkpointing. The optimal VLR checkpointing interval is derived to balance the checkpointing cost against the paging cost. We also model GSM periodic location updating (location confirmation) to quantify the relationship between the location confirmation frequency and the number of lost calls. The HLR failure restoration procedures for IS-41 and GSM are described. We show the number of lost calls in a HLR failure. Both the procedures in IS-41 and GSM cannot identify the VLRs that need to be accessed by the HLR after a failure. An algorithm is proposed to identify the VLRs, which can be used to aggressively restore a HLR after its failure.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)365-372
Number of pages8
JournalWireless Networks
Volume1
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1995

Keywords

  • Information System
  • Personal Communication
  • Communication Network
  • Mobility Database
  • Restoration Procedure

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