On a handover algorithm in a PCS1900/GSM/DCS1800 network

Author

Wigard, Jaoen ; Nielsen, Thomas Toftegaard ; Michaelsen, Per Henrik ; Morgensen, P.

Author_Institution

Center for PersonKommuniation, Aalborg, Denmark

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

2510

Abstract

Traffic reason handover is a functionality that distributes the traffic out over the network according to the traffic load. This can decrease the blocking and thus increase the quality of service (QoS). Its potential gain is analytically calculated and network simulations are performed to evaluate the performance. It is shown that the capacity gain from traffic reason handover is depending on the size of the cell overlap, the number of channels per cell and on how uniform the traffic is spread geographically over the network. Simulations show that even in a situation with uniformly distributed traffic, which is the worst case situation, the use of traffic reason handover decreases the blocking

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; digital radio; digital simulation; personal communication networks; probability; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; PCS1900/GSM/DCS1800 network; QoS; blocking probability; blocking reduction; capacity gain; cell overlap size; handover algorithm; network simulations; performance evaluation; quality of service; simulations; traffic distribution; traffic load; traffic reason handover; uniformly distributed traffic; Intelligent networks; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999 IEEE 49th

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1999.778536

Filename

778536