A new model of the soft handover mechanism in the UMTS network

Author

Hanczewski, Slawomir ; Stasiak, Maciej ; Zwierzykowski, Piotr

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. & Comput. Networks, Poznan Univ. of Technol., Poznan, Poland

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 July 2014

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

87

Abstract

Mobile networks are among the fastest-developing areas of ICT. The increasing number of network users and the number of services offered by the network makes it necessary to develop new methods of network modeling and analysis. These methods also need to take into account the influence of complex traffic management mechanisms on network efficiency. An important group of traffic management mechanisms are used for the handover functionality. The paper proposes a new analytical model of a handover mechanism employed in the UMTS network.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; mobility management (mobile radio); UMTS network; handover functionality; mobile networks; network efficiency; soft handover mechanism; traffic management mechanisms; 3G mobile communication; Analytical models; Handover; Mathematical model; Multiaccess communication; Spread spectrum communication; UMTS; active set; soft and softer handover;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2014 9th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2014.6923803

Filename

6923803