{"title":"Partially observed stochastic shortest path problem - application to sequential paging in cellular networks","authors":"Sumeetpal S. Singh, V. Krishnamurthy","doi":"10.1109/CDC.2001.981024","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Polling a roaming mobile user in a cellular network to determine its location is called paging and it requires the use of limited wireless resources. We formulate the paging problem as an optimal sequential search problem for a Markovian target and show that the resulting problem is an instance of a Partially Observed Stochastic Shortest Path (POSSP) problem. Using the theory of POSSP problems, we propose optimal and suboptimal paging algorithms with performance bounds. We then propose a scalable sequential paging architecture for paging multiple mobile stations simultaneously using a finite number of paging resources.","PeriodicalId":131411,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2001.981024","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Polling a roaming mobile user in a cellular network to determine its location is called paging and it requires the use of limited wireless resources. We formulate the paging problem as an optimal sequential search problem for a Markovian target and show that the resulting problem is an instance of a Partially Observed Stochastic Shortest Path (POSSP) problem. Using the theory of POSSP problems, we propose optimal and suboptimal paging algorithms with performance bounds. We then propose a scalable sequential paging architecture for paging multiple mobile stations simultaneously using a finite number of paging resources.