One of the challenging tasks in Personal Communication Services (PCS) is to efficiently maintain the location of PCS subscribers
who move from one region to another (hereafter called mobile users). When a mobile user receives a call, the network has to
quickly determine its current location. The existing location management scheme suffers from high signaling traffic in locating
the mobile users. Two-level forwarding pointer scheme has been proposed from per-user forwarding pointer scheme to reduce
the cost of signaling traffic. In this paper, we enhance the two-level forwarding pointer scheme. When a mobile user moves
from its current Registered Area (RA), which is served by Mobile Switching Center (MSC), to another RA the local switch that
acts as a parent of those two MSCs maintains this movement in its memory (hereafter called cache entry). A cache entry is
used to locate rapidly the mobile user instead of querying the Home Location Register (HLR) and waiting for its reply. HLR
is centralized in the network and far away from the mobile users so that the signaling traffic crossing it is expensive. Sometimes
the cache entry may be failed to reach the mobile user then a two-level forwarding pointers will be created from the corresponding
Visitor Location Register (VLR), attached to its MSC, through a correct path to locate the mobile user. Thus, there is a saving
in cost of querying the underlying HLR. The analytical results indicate that such proposal efficiently reduces the signaling
traffic cost for all values of Call to Mobility Ratio (CMR), this is especially considerable when CMR ≥1, without any increase
in the call setup delay.
Salah M. Ramadan (samohra@yahoo.com) received the BS and MS degrees from Computers Engineering Department, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt,
in 1995 and 2002, respectively. From 2002, he was a Ph.D. student in Computers Engineering Department at Al-Azhar University
and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree, where he is a research assistant in the Wireless Networks Branch. His research
interests include traffic management in ATM networks, routing protocols, mobility management in PCS networks, and mobile computing.
He is currently an instructor in Cisco Academy, Egypt.
Ahmed M. El-Sherbini (Sherbini@mcit.gov.eg) received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Communication Engineering, Case Western University, U.S.A. March
1983 and M.Sc. in Communication Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, June 1980. (M. Sc. Research Studies at the Ecole
Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), Paris, France). He is the Director, National Telecommunication Institute
– Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt and Professor of Electrical and Communication Engineering Dept.
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.
M. I. Marie received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electronic and communication engineering from Cairo University on 1972, 1981, 1985,
respectively. Now he is a professor of communications at Computer and System Engineering department Al-Azhar University, Cairo,
Egypt. His fields of interest includes digital communication, computer networks and protocols development.
M. Zaki (azhar@mailer.scu.eun.eg) is the professor of software engineering, Computer and System Engineering Department, Faculty of
Engineering, Al-Azhar University at Cairo. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University
in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Warsaw Technical University, Poland
in 1977. His fields of interest include artificial intelligence, soft computing, and distributed system.
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