Mobility Management Schemes at Radio Network Layer for LTE Femtocells

Author

Wang, Lan ; Zhang, Yongsheng ; Wei, Zhenrong

Author_Institution

DOCOMO Beijing Commun. Labs. Co. Ltd., Beijing

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Femtocell, a small cellular base station in home and small business environment, is an attractive solution for operators to improve indoor coverage and network capacity in 3G networks. However, there are technical problems due to its mass deployment. The paper presents a femtocell architecture for LTE and investigates different handover scenarios. Two mobility management schemes at radio network layer (RNL) are proposed and their signaling cost, complexity, standard impact and application scenarios are also discussed.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; mobility management (mobile radio); radio networks; 3G networks; LTE femtocells; cellular base station; long term evolution; mass deployment; mobility management schemes; network capacity; radio network layer; Base stations; Cellular networks; Costs; Electromagnetic interference; Femtocells; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Macrocell networks; Mobile radio mobility management; Radio access networks; Radio network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2009. VTC Spring 2009. IEEE 69th

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2517-4

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073682

Filename

5073682