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Performance modeling of wireless networks with generally distributed handoff interarrival times

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Dharmaraja, S; Trivedi, KS; Logothetis, D
Published in: Computer Communications
September 22, 2003

Handoff is an important issue in cellular mobile telephone systems. Recently, studies that question the validity of the assumption of handoff arrivals being Poissonian have appeared in the literature. The reasoning behind this claim can be summarized as follows: even if the new call arrival process is assumed to be Poisson, the handoff process due to dependencies with neighboring cells, call blocking and other reasons is not necessarily Poisson. The above-mentioned fact mandates the need to consider more general performance models that allow for arbitrarily distributed interarrival times. In this paper we provide numerical solutions for new and handoff call blocking probabilities with arbitrary handoff interarrival time distribution. For this purpose, we first prove that the underlying stochastic process is a Markov regenerative process and subsequently we use their mathematical theory to develop numerical techniques for important Quality of Service measures. Our results can be seen as a generalization of the recent work by Haring et al. [IEEE Trans. Vehi. Technol. 50 (2001) 664] where handoff traffic was assumed to form a Poisson process. Our work can be used for more accurate dimensioning of cellular systems with realistic traffic. Crown Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Computer Communications

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0140-3664

Publication Date

September 22, 2003

Volume

26

Issue

15

Start / End Page

1747 / 1755

Related Subject Headings

  • Networking & Telecommunications
  • 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
  • 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
  • 4006 Communications engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0805 Distributed Computing
 

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Dharmaraja, S., Trivedi, K. S., & Logothetis, D. (2003). Performance modeling of wireless networks with generally distributed handoff interarrival times. Computer Communications, 26(15), 1747–1755. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-3664(03)00044-6
Dharmaraja, S., K. S. Trivedi, and D. Logothetis. “Performance modeling of wireless networks with generally distributed handoff interarrival times.” Computer Communications 26, no. 15 (September 22, 2003): 1747–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-3664(03)00044-6.
Dharmaraja S, Trivedi KS, Logothetis D. Performance modeling of wireless networks with generally distributed handoff interarrival times. Computer Communications. 2003 Sep 22;26(15):1747–55.
Dharmaraja, S., et al. “Performance modeling of wireless networks with generally distributed handoff interarrival times.” Computer Communications, vol. 26, no. 15, Sept. 2003, pp. 1747–55. Scopus, doi:10.1016/S0140-3664(03)00044-6.
Dharmaraja S, Trivedi KS, Logothetis D. Performance modeling of wireless networks with generally distributed handoff interarrival times. Computer Communications. 2003 Sep 22;26(15):1747–1755.
Journal cover image

Published In

Computer Communications

DOI

ISSN

0140-3664

Publication Date

September 22, 2003

Volume

26

Issue

15

Start / End Page

1747 / 1755

Related Subject Headings

  • Networking & Telecommunications
  • 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
  • 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
  • 4006 Communications engineering
  • 1005 Communications Technologies
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0805 Distributed Computing