A Handoff Strategy Based on Cooperative Diversity for Cellular Reylaying Network

Author

Chen, Yueyun ; Liu, Yanyan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, USTB, Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

28-29 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

326

Lastpage

329

Abstract

A novel cooperative cellular relaying network structure with fixed relay stations is proposed. This structure can effectively improve the received signal strength of cell-edge users benefiting from cooperative diversity. Based on the proposed structure, a cooperative handoff strategy (CHOS) is designed. The CHOS extends the handoff algorithms based on absolute threshold value and hysteresis level by using the signal strength with cooperative diversity gain as handoff decision. The improved handoff decision in CHOS reduces the number of handoff in the system. If the target cell is crowed, CHOS can decrease the system handoff block rate by a simple channel borrowing mechanism. The simulation outcomes are provided for the creditability verification of the theoretical results.

Keywords

cellular radio; diversity reception; mobility management (mobile radio); absolute threshold value; cellular relaying network; cooperative diversity gain; cooperative handoff strategy; handoff decision; received signal strength; Cellular networks; Fading; Frequency; Hysteresis; Interference; Land mobile radio cellular systems; MIMO; Relays; Resource management; Spread spectrum communication; cellular; cooperative relay; handoff; handoff block rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Networks and Information Systems, 2009. WNIS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3901-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5400-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WNIS.2009.93

Filename

5381957