Enhanced handover mechanism in long term evolution (LTE) networks

Mohsin Khan, Majid Ashraf, Haseeb Zafar, Tufail Ahmad

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Abstract

Femtocell is a low power base station, wireless access point designed especially for homes and small organizations. It is promising technology for operators to improve their capacity and for users to give indoor coverage. As mobile users are increasing day by day so the legacy system is unable to provide such a high data rates to all these users. In this case femtocells play a key role to offload the data traffic from macro base station. The implementation of femtocell has posed so many challenges like interference, localization, access control and mobility management. The aim of this paper is to present an enhanced algorithm for handover in Hand-In scenario. In already existing algorithms handover is decided on the basis of a single parameter but here we have simulated an algorithm that considers multiple parameters instead of a single parameter for handover. Through this algorithm, the most suitable femtocell will be selected for handover, hence number of handovers will be decreased. Simulation results show that the system performance has been improved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)40-47
Number of pages8
JournalInternational Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security
Volume9
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Femtocell
  • Hand-In
  • Handover
  • Interference
  • Macro-cell
  • Mobility management

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