Performance modeling for mobile telephone networks

In a mobile telephone network, users may move around the service area during conversations, which can significantly affect the efficiency of radio resource (i.e., radio channels) allocation in the network. The author describes a simple analytic model to study the effect of user mobility on the performance of a mobile telephone network. Throughout the derivation of the model, the intuition behind the equations is provided to explain how user behavior affects network performance. This model can be used to study different handoff schemes with single and mixed types of users with different mobility patterns.