Patent ID: 7031731
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for concurrently paging, in a cellular system having a plurality of users, the users being paged to determine a location of each user, the paging to one of the plurality of users originating from one of a plurality of cells, any of the users being located in any of the cells with a given unique probability corresponding to the user and the cell, the paging from the cell to one of the users occurring within one of a plurality of time slots, the time slot in which one of the users is paged in one of the cells being a characteristic of the one cell and the one user, and wherein, in one of said time slots, only one of the users is paged from one of the cells, the method comprising the steps of: minimizing a characteristic function of paging performance, said function depending on a search schedule and the probability of finding a user in a cell; determining, from the minimization of the characteristic function, an optimal search schedule;