Handling Mobile Network Congestion with Assembly line Control Algorithm

Abstract

Congestion control is a major issue facing Mobile Network as a result of an increase in the number of telephone subscribers and new services introduced. All existing techniques in literature for controlling congestion are centred on two principles which are either to reject excessive traffic to prevent overutilization of network resources or re-routing excess load if an overload occurs. Re-routing of the excess load has not been properly handled with an appropriate algorithm. This study proposed and implemented a load balancing scheme for congestion control in Mobile Network using Assembly Line Balancing to ensure even distribution of load and re-routing a new load to the least-loaded or idle server. The result from the implementation in this study shows that assembly line balancing for load balancing process reduced the congestion on the mobile network and also reduced the number of time that a subscriber used when a call is sent to a Base Station