• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.35-46
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• 2000

One of the main chalenges in personal communication services (PCS) is to locate many mobile terminals that may move frequently from place to place. Such a system operation is called location management. Many network signaling traffic, and database queries are required to achieve such a task. Several strategies have been proposed to improve the efficiency of location management. These strategies use location register databases to store the current location on mobile terminals, and are vulnerable to failure of the location registers. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant pointer forwarding with distributed home location register (FT-RFDHLR) to tolerate the failure of location registers. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by an analytical model, and is compared with thew pointer forwarding with the single home location register (PFSHLR), the pointer forwarding with distributed home location register (PFDHLR), Biaz's bypass forwarding strategy (BFS) and two-path forwarding strategy (TPFS).

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.61-65
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• 2018

A Location Register(LR) system manages each subscriber's location information, which continuously changes in mobile cellular network. For this purpose, the LR database system provides backup management facilities. The objectives of this paper are to identify the problems of the current LR system through rigorous analysis, to suggest solutions to them. I proposed efficient backup methods that takes into account the characteristics of LR database transactions. In the proposed backup method, I use two kinds of dirty flags in order to solve the performance degradation problem caused by frequent registration- location operations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.249-251
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• 1998

본 논문은 개인 휴대통신망네에서의 각 노드간 시그날링 트래픽을 감소시키기 위한 기법에 관한 연구이다. 미래의 개인휴대통신망에서는 셀 크기가 더욱 작이지고 사용자가 증가혀 현 개인휴대통신의 문제점인 HLR로의 시그날 병목현상. 인접지역에서의 핑퐁효과 발생이 더욱 심화돌 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제의 해결을 위해 각 VLR들이 자신을 중심으로 일정한 Circle Registration area를 가지면 이 area내의 VLR 들의 id를 가지는 DCLR(Dynamic Circle Location Register)이 되도록 한다. 단말이 다른 지역으로이동할 때 마다 단말이 현 DCLR area에 있는지를 검사후 해당 DCLR 로 단말의 최신 위치정보를 연속적으로 전송하고, 또한 이러한 이동에 따라 동적으로 단말의 DCLR이 변화되며, 호 발생시는 단말의 해당 DCLR을 조회함으로써 수신자의 위치를 추적한다. 이 방식은 기존 방식에서 사용자가 다른 지역으로 이동할 때마다 HLR로 매번 등록하고 질의함으로써 발생되는 HLR로의 시그널링 신호 과부하를 효율적으로 분산, 감소시키며 인접지역 경계간에 발생되는 핑퐁효과가 발생되지 않도록 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.601-609
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• 2003

In wireless mobile networks, the service area is partitioned into several registration areas (RAs). Every RA is associated with a mobility database called Visitor Location Register (VLR). The VLR is used to achieve the location management of the mobile terminals. When a mobile terminal enters a new RA, the VLR stores the current location information of the mobile terminal before serving any mobile services. At that time, if the VLR is full, the registration procedure fails, and the system can not deliver services to the mobile user under the existing cellular technology To resolve this problem, we propose a VLR overflow control scheme considering mobility of mobile users to accomodate incoming users during VLR overflow. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated by an analytic model in terms of costs for the location search and the location update, and compared with those of the overflow control scheme proposed by Lin[1].

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.3
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• pp.387-394
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• 2004

One of the main challenges in personal communication services(PCS ) Is to locate many mobile terminals that nay move from place to place frequently. This kind of system operation is called location management. This task entails sophisticated signaling traffic and database queries. Several strategies have been proposed to improve the efficiency of location management. These strategies use location register databases to store the current locations of mobile terminals, and are vulnerable to failure of the location register databases. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant pointer forwarding scheme with distributed home location register in order to tolerate the failure of location registers. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated analytically by simulation, and Is compared with Biaz's bypass forwarding strategy and two-path forwarding strategy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.8B
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• pp.1444-1455
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• 1999

In the standard location strategy such as IS-41 and GSM, Home Location Register(HLR) and Visitor Location Register(VLR) databases are used to manage the location of mobile terminals. The primary goal that location management schemes investigate is to reduce the cost of database access and the traffic for signaling network. When mobile terminals move frequently, one of problems in the standard location management scheme is that HLR database is highly updated and the traffic in signaling network can be occurred significantly due to high message transfer rate between HRL and VLR. As a solution to these problems, this paper proposes the location management scheme using VLR Gateway(VG) to reduce the both traffics of HLR update and signaling network which are resulted from location registration requirements of mobile terminals whenever they cross their registration area boundary. VG is a kind of database that is placed between HLR and VLR. It integrates one or more registration area defined in a system into one group and plays a role on behalf of HLR in a integrated registration scope so that the call delivery and the movement of mobile terminals are possible without HLR access in the scope. In order to evaluate performance of IS-41 and proposed scheme, we simulate two schemes based on wide range of call to mobility ratio. Its experiment result shows that in the proposed scheme total database cost increased slightly whereas HLR and signaling traffic decreased remarkably.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.144-149
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• 2020

A database called Home Location Register(HLR) plays a major role in location management in mobile cellular networks. The objectives of this paper are to identify the problems of the current HLR system through rigorous analysis, to suggest solutions to them. The current HLR backup method is a process of simply writing the changed memory SLD block to disk, which has a problem in maintaining database consistency. Since information change and backup are performed separately by separate processes, there is a risk of information inconsistency when an error restart occurs. To solve this problem, a transaction concept was introduced for subscriber-related operation functions and a recovery method through logging and checkpointing was introduced. The subscriber related functions of tasks terminated normally by the suggested process are recovered with consistency even after system restarts. Performance is also not affected seriously because disk tasks for log occur with only subscriber related functions.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.186-201
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• 1997

In this paper, a home location register (HLR) for CDMA mobile communication system (CMS) is introduced. It stores the mobile station (MS) subscribers locations and supplementary service information. Call processing procedures for HLR are developed to receive and store subscriber's location coming from mobile exchange (MX) during the location registration, and to transfer subscriber's location and supplementary service information to the MX during the mobile-terminated call setup. For fast call processing by increasing database access speed, a memory-resident database management system is devised. For Easy and secure HLR operation, administration and maintenance functions and overload control mechanisms are implemented. Designed HLR hardware platform is expandable and flexible enough to reallocated software blocks to any subsystems within the platform. It is configurable according to the size of subscribers. An authentication center (AC) is developed on the same platform. It screens the qualified MS from the unqualified. The calls to and from the unqualified MS are rejected in CMS. To authenticate the MS, the AC generates a new authentication parameter called "AUTHR" using shared secret data (SSD) and compared it with the other AUTHR received from the MS. The MC also generates and stores seed keys called "A-keys" which are used to generate SSDs. The HLR requirements, the AC requirements, software architecture, hardware platform, and test results are discussed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.123-134
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• 1999

Nowadays since the automobile is regarded as the third living space, comfortable conditions are required in the passenger compartment. The customer's concern on air-conditioning/heating, ventilation and demisting/defrosting performances has been much increased. Both ventilation and demisting /defrosting performances are directly influenced by register location, shape of regist guide vane, ventilation flow rate, air distribution , and air circulation pattern. Diffuse plume of air from the register is desirable not only to maintain comfort when the comfort when the comfortable condition has been satisfied but to improve demisting /defrosting performance. In this study, experimental and numerical investigation about the flow field of six different register vane types were carried out , respectively. The numerical analysis, based upon the $textsc{k}$-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model , was applied to the air flow field. The results show that the shape of register guide vane should be considered as an important design paramter.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.165-171
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• 2002

We propose Dynamic Circle Location Register (DCLR) scheme where each visiting location register (VLR) has a given fixed circle registration area around itself and has IDs of other VLRs in this circle area. Whenever a terminal moves to another registration area (RA), system computes whether the terminal is located in the current DCLR area and sends the recent location information of terminal to the old or new DCLR according to computing results. Also, according to change DCLR circle dynamically, we can track terminal location by querying DCLR of the current terminal when a call originates. The our scheme solves the HLR bottleneck due to the terminals frequent RA crossings and distributes the registration traffic to each of the local signaling transfer point (LSTP) area in wireless communications (WC)