Performance analysis of a person-based addressing scheme for improved mobility management<FNR></FNR><FN>Parts of this paper were presented at the IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., 10–12 February 1999 </FN>

The concept of a person-based number is attractive due to several pressing demands in implementation of current wireless communication systems. Some of these are: sudden proliferation in number of area codes; the need for freedom from number changes due to changes in service provider, location, or area code; and demand for improved and integrated communication service for users. Some important factors that determine the efficiency of a mobility management scheme include fewer number of times that locations need to be updated, reduced amount of overhead data that represents mobility related information, and efficient storage mechanisms that allow for fast storage and retrieval of this information. In this paper, we shall outline a mobility management scheme that provides a globally unique personal number and offers important benefits in regard to the issues cited above. For an efficient implementation of such a scheme however, an investigation of its performance is required in order to estimate signaling traffic and signaling delays. This paper will focus on some recent studies conducted on an analysis of this scheme by using query and update operations as the metrics for determining average call delay and control data storage and transmission requirements. A comparative analysis is also performed with equivalent cases of query and update in the IS-41 system. This analysis provides a valuable tool to determine network management requirements in the implementation of a person-based number scheme. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]