Terminal Migration Model in which Cell Dwell Time is Defined by Different Probability Distributions in Different Cells

Hirotoshi HIDAKA  Kazuyoshi SAITOH  Noriteru SHINAGAWA  Takehiko KOBAYASHI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E85-A   No.7   pp.1693-1695
Publication Date: 2002/07/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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Keyword: 
terminal migration model,  cell dwell time,  mobile terminal,  probability distribution,  mobile communication networks,  

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Summary: 
In evaluating the teletraffic of mobile communication networks, it is important to model the motion of terminals. In the previous migration model, mobility characteristics of terminals, such as cell dwell time, have been expressed by a single probability distribution. In this paper, we discuss the modeling of the cell dwell time of terminals in each cell. Using measured data we show that cell dwell time differs from cell to cell and follows log-normal distributions rather than conventional exponential distributions.