Diffusion Model for Multimedia and Mobile Traffic Based on Population Process for Active Users in a Micro-Cell

Shin'ichiro SHINOMIYA  Masaki AIDA  Kazuyoshi SAITOH  Noriteru SHINAGAWA  Takehiko KOBAYASHI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E83-B   No.8   pp.1827-1833
Publication Date: 2000/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications)
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mobile communication,  multimedia,  self-similarity,  traffic,  

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Summary: 
Recent development of compact and powerful portable computers and mobile phones and proliferation of the Internet will enable mobile multimedia communications. From the viewpoint of implementing multimedia services into mobile communications, it allows us to predict that traffic characteristics of mobile networks change. For planning, designing, and operating mobile multimedia networks, it is important to investigate traffic models which take the effect of multimedia services into consideration. This paper investigates population of active users in a micro-cell and proposes a traffic model for mobile multimedia networks. This model describes a population process of active users in a micro-cell in diffusion model, and its characteristics include self-similarity and activity of mobility. We also made an evaluation of network performance by using simulation, in order to show that characteristics of the proposed traffic model have impact on planning and designing networks.