Teletraffic analysis of cellular communication systems with general mobility based on hyper-Erlang characterization

Abstract

This paper proposes a new analytical model for the performance evaluation of cellular communication systems. Our model allows more general cases of the distributions of the call time and the cell residence time. Based on the characterization of the call time by a hyper-Erlang distribution, the Laplace transform of the channel occupancy time distribution is derived as a function of the Laplace transform of the cell residence time distribution. In particular, the essential quality of service measure such as the forced termination probability is exactly obtained by using a delayed renewal process. From numerical results, it is shown that the non-exponential model has an obvious difference in performance as compared to exponential models. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.