Efficient Location Tracking of Mobile Nodes for Situation Awareness

Abstract

Mobile user tracking is the function of collecting, updating and maintaining information about the location of a mobile user based on situational awareness information. The tracking and connectivity information maintenance mechanism proposed by us is in the form of registration schemes which are of two types?single layer overlapping and multi-layer over-lapping. Both types are static, simple to implement in a scenario such as that of a battlefield and under which overlapping registration areas of various sizes are allowed. The availability of various registration area sizes allow the mobile to pick the one that its better to its message/mobility pattern. An algorithm is obtained which given an heterogeneous mobile population with a variety of message/mobility patterns and a registration scheme, determines an allocation of mobiles to registration areas such that the resulting aggregate registration and paging rates are below certain target values, whenever the target values are achievable.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA439719

Entities

People

  • F. M. Anjum
  • L. Tassiulas

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Boundaries
  • Communication Networks
  • Crossings
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Markov Chains
  • Maryland
  • Military Research
  • Mobility
  • Natural Disasters
  • Probability
  • Situational Awareness
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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