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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTC.2012.19C.2.149

Network Search Algorithm for Fast Comeback to Home Network in Roaming Environment  

Ha, Won-Ki (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
Koh, Seok-Joo (경북대학교 IT대학 컴퓨터학부)
Abstract
In the roaming case, the cost of using the visited network is larger than that of home network. So, if a mobile terminal is connected to the visited network, even though it actually came back to the home network, the user may unduly pay for communication. Such a problem frequently occurs when many networks are overlapped in the same region, as shown in the case of Poland. In this paper, we propose a network search algorithm to support the fast comeback to home network in the roaming environment. In the proposed scheme, which is based on the 3GPP specification, the mobile terminal tries to search the home network by using a database of network information, as fast as possible. For performance evaluation, we construct a virtual testbed with real terminal and network equipment to emulate the service providers in Poland. From the experimental results, we can see that the proposed scheme can reduce the time of comeback to the home network by 3~60 minutes, compared the existing 3GPP scheme.
Keywords
Mobile Communications; Roaming; Network Search; Poland;
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