Title :
On fractional and semi-soft handover in long term evolution (LTE) networks
Author :
Hussein, Yaseein Soubhi ; Ali, Borhanuddin Mohd ; Varahram, Pooria
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Syst., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
Abstract :
The fast pace of development of telecommunications technology and the challenges presented with the increasing number of users for any service, anywhere, anytime, access creates new problems with on the base stations capability and the handover/handoff (HO) techniques. To face these challenges much research have been made to come out with algorithms that can handle handover of user equipment (UE) while maintaining their respective quality of service (QoS). In this paper a hybrid HO algorithms called semi-soft handover (SSHO) and fractional soft handover (FSHO) in long term evolution (LTE) system are studied. The outage probability, the main metric to evaluate handover, is compared for different handover techniques.
Keywords :
Long Term Evolution; mobility management (mobile radio); probability; quality of service; radio equipment; FSHO; HO technique; LTE network; Long Term Evolution network; QoS; SSHO; UE; base station; fractional handover; handover-handoff technique; outage probability; quality of service; semisoft handover; telecommunications technology; user equipment; 3G mobile communication; Bandwidth; Complexity theory; OFDM; Quality of service; Radio access networks; Fractional Soft Handover (FSHO); Handover/Handoff (HO); Long Term Evolution (LTE); Semi-Soft Handover (SSHO); Site Selection Diversity Transmission (SSDT);
Conference_Titel :
Communications (APCC), 2011 17th Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sabah
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0389-8
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.2011.6152758
