PERFORMANCE MODELING FOR MOBILE TELEPHONE NETWORKS

In a mobile telephone network, users may move around the service area during conversations, which can significantly affect the efficiency of radio resource (i.e., radio channels) allocation in the network. The author describes a simple analytic model to study the effect of user m obility on the performance of a mobile telephone Throughout the deriva tion of the model, the intuition behind the equations is provided to e xplain how user behavior affects network This model can be used to stu dy different handoff schemes with single and mixed types of users with different mobility patterns.