Motion prediction in mobile/wireless networks
William Su, Mário Gerla · 2000
This dissertation concerns the benefits of using mobility prediction to improve connection quality in wireless networks. A cellular wireless network consists of fixed based stations connected together by a wired network. Mobile terminals in a cellular network establish connections through their local base stations. There is a limit on the number of users that a base station can support simultaneously. Thus, an incoming connection is dropped when there is insufficient bandwidth in the current cell to support it. The number of ongoing connections that are dropped can be lowered by rejecting new call requests. One possible method of achieving this is to reserve bandwidth for a mobile terminal in a cell prior to its arrival. In this dissertation, reservation schemes that exploit mobi...