• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.48-64
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• 2003

Recently, as the number of mobile users keeps increasing explosively, the location management to track the mobile users in mobile communication systems is being more important. However, the previous location management schemes have been used static location information without the consideration of a user's moving direction. This results in unnecessary pagings, consequently it increases location management costs. In this paper, we propose a mew location management costs. In this paper, we propose a new location the cell occurred a location update. It also determines whether the location update will be executed or not, by the offset operation of direction vector. Thus, a user's paging areas are generated dynamically along the user's moving direction. The wide of paging areas is also determined dynamically. Besides, we present analytic model for our scheme. To compare with our scheme, the distance-based scheme is analyzed. The numerical result shows that our scheme is more efficient than the distance-based scheme in the most cases except a low CMR. Particularly if a user move into a specific direction, our scheme has the lower location management cost than that of the distance-based scheme.