A paper on

MOBILE COMPUTING LOCATION MANAGMENT

Under
Theme: Mobile Computing

ABSTRACT:
Mobile computing is a new emerging computing paradigm of the future. Data manage
ment and location management in this paradigm poses many challenging problems to
the Mobile database community. In the past decade, Mobile communications have e
xperienced an expensive growth due to recent technological advances in mobile ne
tworks and cellular telephone manufacturing. Location management is a very impor
tant problem among these challenges.
It consists of updating the location of the user, searching the location
and performing search-updates. When the host changes location, an update occurs
. When the host want to communicate with a mobile host whose location is unknown
to the requesting host, a search occurs. A search-update occurs after a success
ful search, when the requesting host updates the location information correspond
ing to the searched mobile host. The goal of a good location management scheme s
hould be to provide efficient searches and updates. In this paper, the different
location management schemes, various search & update strategies are discussed.
Key Word: Location, Mobile Station, MSC, Base Station, MSS & MH

INTRODUCTION
Managing location information of mobile nodes is an important issue in mobile co
mputing systems. Location management is one of the fundamental issues in cellula
r networks. It deals with how to track subscribers on the move and how to update
his or her movements. In mobile communication environment, they are going to ac
commodate more subscribers; the size of the cell must be reduced to make more ef
ficient use of the limited frequency spectrum allocation. This will add to the c
hallenge of some fundamental issues in cellular networks. Location management co
nsists of updating the location of the user, searching the location and performi
ng search-updates. Various strategies can be discussed in this paper for the eff
icient performance of updating, searching and search-updating strategies through
out the execution.
In a cellular network, a service coverage area is divided into smaller hexagonal
areas referred to as cells. A base station