Mobility traffic analysis for PACS using various subscriber profiles

Abstract

The signaling traffic between access managers (AMs) and home location register (HLR) are SS7 signaling messages in the personal access communication system (PACS) system. These signaling messages are for the transportation of subscriber unit (SU) registration, call origination, and call delivery, and also for authentication in these procedures. The signaling traffic is referred to mobility management traffic. In addition, the performance of mobility management traffic plays an essential role in the performance of the whole PACS system network. In this paper, we propose an M/G/1 traffic analysis on the PACS mobility traffic between AMs and HLR by using the mobile, business, and residential subscriber profiles. In addition, four performance metrics are investigated to observe the mobility characteristics with various subscriber profiles, which include waiting times at the AM and HLR average query response times, average update response times, and the expected numbers of messages per second exchanged between the AM and HLR. Finally, some observations and comments are made for the PACS system.