Teletraffic Characteristics of Cellular Communication for Different Types of Vehicle Motion

Hirotoshi HIDAKA  Kazuyoshi SAITOH  Noriteru SHINAGAWA  Takehiko KOBAYASHI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E84-B   No.3   pp.558-565
Publication Date: 2001/03/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Innovative Mobile Communication Technologies at the Dawn of the 21st Century)
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Keyword: 
cellular communication,  teletraffic,  vehicle motion,  handoff,  self-similarity,  

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Summary: 
The cellular-communication systems of the future will be required to provide multimedia services to users moving about in a variety of ways (on foot, in automobiles etc.). Different forms of motion have different characteristics. The characterization of the different forms of motion and their effects on telecommunications traffic is important in the planning, design and operation of mobile communication networks. The characterization of the motion of various platform types (inter-city buses, recreational vehicles, freight trucks, and taxis) based on measurements using Global Positioning System is presented in this paper. The measured characteristics of motion are then used to evaluate teletraffic statistics such as cell cross-over rate and cell dwell time by overlaying hypothetical cell systems on the measured loci of vehicles. Self-similarity was discovered in the cell dwell time characteristic of the taxis.