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A Location Management Scheme Using Gateway in PCN

PCN에서 VLR 게이트웨이를 이용한 위치관리 기법

  • 박남식 (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서비스연구부 정회원) ;
  • 유영철 (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서비스연구부 정회원) ;
  • 남궁한 (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서비스연구부 정회원) ;
  • 진성일 (충남대학교 컴퓨터과학과 데이터베이스 연구실 정회원)
  • Published : 1999.08.01
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Abstract

In the standard location strategy such as IS-41 and GSM, Home Location Register(HLR) and Visitor Location Register(VLR) databases are used to manage the location of mobile terminals. The primary goal that location management schemes investigate is to reduce the cost of database access and the traffic for signaling network. When mobile terminals move frequently, one of problems in the standard location management scheme is that HLR database is highly updated and the traffic in signaling network can be occurred significantly due to high message transfer rate between HRL and VLR. As a solution to these problems, this paper proposes the location management scheme using VLR Gateway(VG) to reduce the both traffics of HLR update and signaling network which are resulted from location registration requirements of mobile terminals whenever they cross their registration area boundary. VG is a kind of database that is placed between HLR and VLR. It integrates one or more registration area defined in a system into one group and plays a role on behalf of HLR in a integrated registration scope so that the call delivery and the movement of mobile terminals are possible without HLR access in the scope. In order to evaluate performance of IS-41 and proposed scheme, we simulate two schemes based on wide range of call to mobility ratio. Its experiment result shows that in the proposed scheme total database cost increased slightly whereas HLR and signaling traffic decreased remarkably.

IS-41과 GSM 같은 표준에서 위치 전략은 이동 단말기들의 위치를 관리하는데 홈 위치 등록기(Home Location Register : HLR) 데이터베이스와 방문자 위치 등록기(Visitor Location Register : VLR) 데이터베이스를 사용한다. 위치관리 기법들이 추구하는 목표는 데이터베이스 접근 및 상호 망 트래픽에 대한 비용을 최소하는 것이다. 표준 위치 관리 기법의 문제점은 단말기들의 이동이 빈번할 경우 HLR 데이터베이스를 갱신하는 비용이 높고, VLR과 HLR간 메시지 전송 빈도가 높기 때문에 신호 망에 심한 트래픽을 유발할 수 있다. 이러한 문제점에 대한 한 가지 개선책으로 본 논문에서는 이동 단말기들이 등록지역의 경계를 넘을 때마다 단말기의 위치등록 요청으로 인하여 초래될 수 있는 HLR과 신호 망 트래픽을 줄일 수 있도록 VLR 게이트웨이(VLR Gateway : VG)를 이용한 위치 관리 기법을 제안한다. VG는 HLR과 VLR사이에 배치되는 데이터베이스로서 시스템에 정의된 하나 이상의 인접 등록지연들을 하나의 그룹으로 통합하고, 그 통합 등록지역 범위 내에서 VG가 HLR의 역할을 대신 수행함으로써 HLR을 접근할 필요없이 단말기간 호출 및 이동이 가능하다. S-41과 제안 기법간에 성능 평가를 위하여 다양한 범위의 호출 대 이동 비율에 대한 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과 제안 기법에서 전체 데이터베이스 비용이 다소 증가한 반면에 HLR 및 신호 망 트래픽이 축소되었다.

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