Addressing and routing in hexagonal networks with applications for tracking mobile users and connection rerouting in cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Tập 13 Số 9 - Trang 963-971 - 2002
F. Garcia Nocetti1, I. Stojmenovic2, Jingyuan Zhang3
1DISCA, IIMAS, UNAM Apdo, Mexico
2University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
3Computer Science Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

Tóm tắt

Nodes in a hexagonal network are placed at the vertices of a regular triangular tessellation, so that each node has up to six neighbors. The network is proposed as an alternative interconnection network to a mesh connected computer (with nodes serving as processors) and is used also to model cellular networks where nodes are the base stations. In this paper, we propose a suitable addressing scheme for nodes (with two variants), derive a formula for distance between nodes, and present a very simple and elegant routing algorithm. This addressing scheme and corresponding routing algorithm for hexagonal interconnection are considerably simpler than previously proposed solutions. We then apply the addressing scheme for solving two problems in cellular networks. With the new scheme, the distance between the new and old cell to which a mobile phone user is connected can be easily determined and coded with three integers, one of them being zero. Further, in order to minimize the wireless cost of tracking mobile users, we propose hexagonal cell identification codes containing three, four, or six bits, respectively, to implement a distance based tracking strategy. These schemes do not have errors in determining cell distance in existing hexagonal based cellular networks. Another application is for connection rerouting in cellular networks during a path extension process.

Từ khóa

#Routing #Intelligent networks #Land mobile radio cellular systems #Base stations #Multiprocessor interconnection networks #Broadcasting #Computer networks #Mobile handsets #Costs #Tracking

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