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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2012.37B.12.1119

Mobility Management of M2M Devices with Grouping in the LTE System  

Roh, Hee-Tae (연세대학교 전기전자공학부 통신망 연구실)
Lee, Jang-Won (연세대학교 전기전자공학부 통신망 연구실)
Abstract
The one of features of M2M communications, which are recently attracted attention as a future business of mobile communications, is that there is a large number of devices compared with traditional communication services. Hence, the control signal that are generated by the M2M devices may cause a significant congestion in the network and in order to solve this problem, a standardization is progressing for reducing the redundant signaling by managing M2M devices as a group in 3GPP standardization. In this paper, we propose a method of group based mobility management by managing M2M devices that have the same mobility as a group. In the proposed method, M2M devices that have the same mobility are grouped by the Mobility Management Entity (MME) and the MME elects a group header among the M2M devices in the group. Then, the group header performs the Tracking Area Update (TAU) on behalf of the group members to reduce the signaling overhead of mobility management. With the proposed method, we can achieve 80% decrease of the signaling overhead of mobility management compared with the case where each M2M device individually performs its TAU procedure.
Keywords
group based optimization; Machine-to-Machine communications; Mobility management; 3GPP LTE;
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