Neighbour Cell List Reduction in Multi-Tier Heterogeneous Networks
The ongoing call or data session must be maintained to ensure a good quality of service. This can be accomplished by performing handover procedure while the user is on the move. However, dense deployment of small cells in 5G networks is a challenging issue due to the extensive number of handovers. In this paper, a neighbour cell list method is proposed to reduce the number of target small cells and hence minimizing the number of handovers. The neighbour cell list is built by omitting cells that could cause an unnecessary handover and/or handover failure because of short time of stay of a user in these cells. A multi-attribute decision making technique, simple additive weighting, is then applied to the optimized neighbour cell list. The performance of the proposed method is analysed and compared with that of the existing methods. Results disclose that our method decreases the candidate small cell list, unnecessary handovers, handover failure and short time of stay cells compared to the competitive method.
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290, 2013.
[2] H. Kalbkhani, S. Yousefi, and M. G. Shayesteh, “Adaptive handover algorithm
in heterogeneous femtocellular networks based on received signal strength
and signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio prediction,” IET Communications,
vol. 8, no. 17, pp. 3061–3071, 2014.
[3] S. Kapoor, D. Grace, and T. Clarke, “A base station selection scheme
for handover in a mobility-aware ultra-dense small cell urban vehicular
environment,” in 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on
Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). IEEE, 2017,
pp. 1–5.
[4] H. Zhang, C. Jiang, J. Cheng, and V. C. Leung, “Cooperative interference
mitigation and handover management for heterogeneous cloud small cell
networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 92–99, 2015.
[5] K. Kanwal and G. A. Safdar, “Energy efficiency and superlative ttt
for equitable rlf and ping pong in lte networks,” Mobile Networks and
Applications, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1682–1692, 2018.
[6] G. Araniti, J. Cosmas, A. Iera, A. Molinaro, A. Orsino, and P. Scopelliti,
“Energy efficient handover algorithm for green radio networks,” in Broadband
Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), 2014 IEEE International
Symposium on. IEEE, 2014, pp. 1–6.
[7] M. M. Hasan, S. Kwon, and S. Oh, “Frequent-handover mitigation
in ultra-dense heterogeneous networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 1035–1040, 2018.
[8] M. Alhabo and L. Zhang, “Load-dependent handover margin for throughput
enhancement and load balancing in hetnets,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp.
67 718–67 731, 2018.
[9] ——, “Unnecessary handover minimization in two-tier heterogeneous
networks,” in Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS),
2017 13th Annual Conference on. IEEE, 2017, pp. 160–164.
[10] A. Merwaday and I. Güvenç, “Optimisation of feicic for energy efficiency
and spectrum efficiency in lte-advanced hetnets,” Electronics Letters, vol. 52,
no. 11, pp. 982–984, 2016.
[11] X. Huang, W. Xu, H. Shen, H. Zhang, and X. You, “Utility-energy efficiency
oriented user association with power control in heterogeneous networks,”
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 526–529, 2018.
[12] L. Wang and G.-S. G. Kuo, “Mathematical modeling for network selection in
heterogeneous wireless networksU˚ a tutorial,” IEEE Communications Surveys
& Tutorials, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 271–292, 2013.
[13] X. Chu, D. López-Pérez, Y. Yang, and F. Gunnarsson, Heterogeneous Cellular
Networks: Theory, Simulation and Deployment. Cambridge University Press,
2013.
[14] J. Zhang and G. De la Roche, Femtocells: technologies and deployment. John
Wiley & Sons, 2011.
[15] E. U. T. R. Access, “Mobility enhancements in heterogeneous networks,”
3GPP TR 36.839, Tech. Rep., 2012.
[16] 3GPP, “HNB and HNB-Macro Propgation Models,” 3rd Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP), Tech. Rep. R4-071617, 2007.
[17] T. Jansen, I. Balan, J. Turk, I. Moerman, and T. Kurner, “Handover parameter
optimization in lte self-organizing networks,” in Vehicular Technology
Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd. IEEE, 2010, pp. 1–5.
[18] Y.-M. Wang and Y. Luo, “Integration of correlations with standard deviations
for determining attribute weights in multiple attribute decision making,”
Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 1–12, 2010.
[19] N. Bulusu, D. Estrin, L. Girod, and J. Heidemann, “Scalable coordination
for wireless sensor networks: self-configuring localization systems,” in
International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications (ISCTA
2001), Ambleside, UK, 2001.
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