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An Analysis of User Mobility in Cellular Networks

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Shamma Nikhat,

Mustafa Mehmet-AliAuthors Info & Claims

MobiWac'18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

Pages 74 - 81

https://doi.org/10.1145/3265863.3265878

Published: 25 October 2018 Publication History

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User mobility impacts the performance of cellular networks. However, there is a lack of results on this problem because of the difficulty of the analysis. The existing results are limited to handover rate and mean path length that a user is associated with the same base station. In this paper, we derive the probability distribution function of the path length that a user will be associated with the same base station. It is assumed that the user travels along a straight path and it is associated to the nearest base station. We make the stochastic geometry assumption that the base stations are distributed over the area according to a Poisson point process. We provide simulation results as further evidence that the analysis is correct. The results of this paper may be useful in the design of cellular networks.

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An Analysis of User Mobility in Cellular Networks
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
  2. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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MobiWac'18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

October 2018

140 pages

ISBN:9781450359627

DOI:10.1145/3265863

General Chair:
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University of Quebec de Montreal, Canada
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University of Ottawa, Canada
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University of Agder, Norway

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