Future Trends in Mobile Communication for Distributed Database Based Location Management

The commercial proliferation of cellular voice and limited data service has created a great demand for mobile communications and computing. Current voice fax, email and paging services will give way to data transfer, video conferencing image transfer and video delivery. Achieving such an advanced level of tether less mobile multimedia service requires the development of wireless network that can provide not only the integrated services, but which can also provide dynamic relocation of mobile terminals. As a result, next generation mobile communication systems are currently been researched worldwide. Global roaming is a basic service of the future mobile network, where terminal mobility personal mobility and service provider portability must be supported. The concepts enabling us to provide universal personal communication include terminal mobility provided by wireless access, personal mobility based on personal numbers and service portability though use of intelligent network (IN) capabilities.