Location tracking of mobiles in cellular radio networks

@article{Hellebrandt1999LocationTO,
  title={Location tracking of mobiles in cellular radio networks},
  author={Martin Hellebrandt and Rudolf Mathar},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology},
  year={1999},
  volume={48},
  pages={1558-1562}
}
Some useful services in cellular radio networks and also a class of handover algorithms require knowledge of the present position and velocity of mobiles. This paper deals with a method to track mobiles by on-line monitoring of field strength data of surrounding base stations at successive time points. Such data is available in present global system for mobile communication (GSM) systems each 0.48 s and also in code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems for transmission control. Because of… 
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