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For future Personal Communication Systems (PCSs) with high user populations and numerous customer services, the signaling and database traffic for locating users is expected to increase dramatically [172]. Thus, deriving efficient strategies for location management is an issue central to mobile computing research. PCSs can involve two types of mobility: terminal and personal mobility [119]. Terminal mobility allows a terminal to be identified by a unique terminal identifier independent of its point of attachment to the network. Personal mobility allows a PCS user to make and receive calls independently of both the network point of attachment and a specific PCS terminal. The presentation in this chapter is applicable to both types of mobility.
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Pitoura, E., Samaras, G. (1998). Location Management. In: Data Management for Mobile Computing. The Kluwer International Series on Advances in Database Systems, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5527-8_5
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