RCP Prediction in Cellular Networks using Normalized Percentile Dwell Time

This paper proposes Normalized Percentile Dwell Time Distribution for predicting the Reporting Cell Planning (RCP) in cellular networks to aid in Location Management. Dwell time parameter is critically dependent on users' behavior within the network. The innate advantage of Normalized Percentile dwell time over the conventionally used absolute dwell time is that it can take only fixed values depending on the number of cells per network area. This helps tremendously in reducing the computational overhead and can be applied to any shape of the network as long as the total number of cells per network remains constant. Consequently, the proposed percentile dwell time has been used to determine the optimal reporting cell-planning configuration for 4x4, 6x6, 6x8, 8x8 and 10x10 networks.