Dynamic location management and performance for PCS networks

Location management is a key issue in Personal Communication Service (PCS) networks. Performance analysis plays important roles in the implementation of location management methods and system design in PCS networks. Existing PCS networks have the Home Location Registers (HLR's) and Visitor Location Registers (VLR's) architecture for location management. Some interesting dyanmic location management methods are proposed to improve the system performance of PCS networks. However, the existing performance analysis of the dyanmic location management methods are not available for PCS networks with real HLR/VLR architecture. In this paper, we present a general analytical model available for the analysis of the important dynamic movement-based location management method for PCS networks.