Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 4(23): 5021-5026, 2012
ISSN: 2040-7467
© Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2012
Submitted: February 28, 2012 Accepted: March 24, 2012 Published: December 01, 2012
Corresponding Author: T. Durga Laxmi, School of Computing, SASTRA University, Thanjavur-613401, India
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Study of User Behavior Pattern in Mobile Environment
T. Durga Laxmi, R. Baby Akila, K.S. Ravichandran and B. Santhi
School of Computing, SASTRA University, Thanjavur-613401, India
Abstract: Mobile communication is rapidly emergent articulation of the communication surroundings. Users
move to the various location and access various services to accomplish their requirements in mobile
environment. These location navigation and service invocation are characterized as a Mobile User Behavior
Pattern (MUBP).User behavior pattern analyses mobile user’s destination point and their service utilization.
Region pattern inquires the details of users target location. Access pattern specifies the services utilized by
mobile users. User behavior pattern provides better quality and good services to the mobile users in time. User
behavior patterns are not only helpful for user, but also for service providers. Analysis of user behavior pattern
gives benefit to the users by invoking the services without traffic congestion problem and to the service
providers by contributing the immediate response to mobile users. This study analyzes the behavior of user
pattern in detail related to existing work of 24 authors from the past few years.
Keywords: Access pattern, congestion problem, Mobile User Behavior Pattern (MUBP), region pattern,
service provider
INTRODUCTION
In recent days wireless communication plays a vital
role among the users. Mobile communication has become
a very important and swiftly growing technology as it
allows users to transmit data from remote field to other
remote or fixed fields. Various surveys reveal that the
mobile users’ behaviors exhibit various measures of
reliability. Mobile user behavior pattern consists of
detailed information of service requirements and mobility
models that is essential to Quality of Service (QoS) and
roaming support. Most of the users in a mobile
environment do not travel at arbitrary. They voyage from
place to place with specific purposes in mind. The most
prominent feature of wireless networks is mobility
support, which enables mobile users to communicate with
others in spite of location. There are numerous factors that
persuade the performance of a mobile environment,
including the infrastructure (the number and location of
the access points), the number of active users, their
mobility and traffic patterns, the wireless technology at
hand and so on. Through the base station, Mobile users
are connected to the network by means of wireless link.
Base stations are classified into clusters and connected to
server. It is authoritative for synchronizing base stations
to provide information services.
The Behavior pattern is a progression of location
navigation, service invocation, the concurrence of
location and service. Mobile users can travel to various
locations and invoke the services through base station.
Location and services may or may not be same for
different users. Some users may move to same location
Fig. 1: Mobile computing architecture
and access same services. Others may move to same
location and access different services. These are
illustrated as region pattern and access pattern. Mobile
users can reach the destination tower through various
intermediate towers. The Threshold value is set
commonly for all the towers in all base station. There is
a chance for towers having more number of users against
a threshold value. This leads to a serious problem in
traffic. To avoid this problem, behavior pattern concept is
included in the existing method. If the tower contains
more number of users than the specified threshold value,
service provider has to allot alternate path to reach the
destination.