Cooperative Load Balancing on Human Moving
Trajectory Diversity in Cellular Networks
Kao-Peng Chou
Department of Communication Engineering
National Central University, Taiwan
Email: 985403006@cc.ncu.edu.tw
Jia-Chin Lin
Department of Communication Engineering
National Central University, Taiwan
Email: jiachin@ce.ncu.edu.tw
Abstract—Human dynamics are investigated for deployment
of picocell in cellular network in this paper. Human dynamics
may lead to variation of channel condition, e.g., moving fast or
slow, driving in a mega city or in a countryside may change
channel conditions. The data delivery throughput depends on
user distribution, commuting trajectory, and Internet access
regularity. Effectiveness of frequency reuse assisted from picocell
deployment is affected by human dynamics. By applying human
dynamics to a network management strategy, the effectiveness of
frequency reuse can be improved in practice. Pricing strategy and
resource management can be reconsidered according to users’
loyalty with respect to a service provider. Novel pricing strate-
gies based on user’s request-to-receive ratio are also proposed.
Computer simulations verify the improvements obtained using
the proposed methods.
Index Terms—Human dynamics, frequency reuse, human tra-
jectory.
I. I NTRODUCTION
Mobile communication networks grow more and more
complicated. Technologies, such as heterogeneous networks,
Internet of Things, device-to-device communication and coor-
dinated multipoint, have focused attention in recent years. A
common goal of aforementioned technologies is to increase
spectral efficiency. For example, in a heterogeneous network,
various levels of basestations, such as macrocells, picocells
and femtocells, coexist and cooperate in a single cell. A
macrocell basestation is known as evolved node B (eNB) in
the long-term evolution (LTE) specifications, which works as
a usual basestation in previous generations of mobile com-
munication. A picocell is deployed within macrocell coverage
and can be accessed by any user, therefore, increasing the data
transmission capacity in the cell.
In a heterogeneous network, users can access the network
in the same frequency if they subscribe either to different
picocells or the macrocell. This also indicates that cell capacity
may be related with human dynamics in practice. Human
dynamics were involved with a branch of research in statistical
physics, including crowd movement, human behaviors, and
human interactions with respect to networks. Human move-
ment trajectory research was often investigated by modeling
human mobility in accordance with stochastic models, such as
the Levy walk model [1] or Brownian motion. The limits of
predictability in the human mobility obtained by observing
cell phone calling records have been investigated [2]. The
author surprisingly determined that travelers with different
moving patterns have comparable predictability. Additionally,
a previous study [3] categorize human characteristics into two
categories in terms of mobility. Human movement trajectory
and the data access request modeling are highly correlated with
network efficiency and network dynamics. Network dynam-
ics research systematically investigates complicated networks,
which can be applied in many different fields, such as power
grids, neural systems, and cellular network management.
The complexity of a dynamic computer network is defined
and evaluated by analyzing the distribution of an entropic
degree [4], which is constrained by network satisfaction and
network cost; the dynamics of a network are attributed to
generate/delete nodes and links with certain probabilities. A
previous study [5] investigated the dynamics of a mobile
sensor network (MSN) in which nodes can move with a
parallel moving algorithm to balance the net force. A previous
study [6] explored the possibility of using designed admissible
compensatory perturbations to stabilize the system. In this
paper, users are considered as dynamic nodes in a network.
Users can change the subscribed network according to human
dynamics; the change influences the network dynamics. The
objective is to control the network dynamics to optimize
network efficiency. According to results provided by the
previous study [2], a human movement trajectory is highly
predictable. A strategy based on the trajectory controls a
user to engage in network interaction. This may improve the
network efficiency by taking advantage of trajectory diversity.
To verify the dynamics, we propose a non-return dual-network
structure in which two networks provide service via non-
overlapping spectrum in the same cell. Users in the cell can
change networks or leave the cell in a stochastic manner, i.e.,
based on probability distributions of service quality, service
fee and tolerance of individuals.
II. HUMAN DYNAMICS MODEL
Methods based on spots-based map are commonly used
in mobility management areas because of the sources of the
movement information. Previous works [2], [7], [8] used cell
phone log to identify user trajectory, which is considered as
a series of connected spots regarding the nearest basestations.
Define a network structure in a wireless cellular cell, in which
users with the same service provider are regarded as nodes in
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