Radio Access Technology Selection enabled by IEEE P1900.4

Author

Pérez-Romero, J. ; Sallent, O. ; Agustí, R. ; Nasreddine, J. ; Muck, M.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper addresses the implementation of decentralized RAT selection strategies at the mobile terminal in a heterogeneous wireless network scenario. This can be achieved if the network provides some information or guidelines to assist the terminal in its decisions, making use of the IEEE P1900.4 protocol. In order to illustrate the procedure, a specific RAT selection strategy for heterogeneous CDMA/TDMA networks devoted to reduce interference by allocating users according to the measured path loss is analyzed. Results show that the proposed decentralized strategy is able to outperform a reference centralized load-balancing strategy.

Keywords

code division multiple access; mobile radio; protocols; radio access networks; resource allocation; time division multiple access; CDMA-TDMA network; IEEE P1900.4 protocol; code division multiple access; decentralized RAT selection strategy; heterogeneous wireless network; load-balancing strategy; mobile terminal; radio access technology; time division multiple access; Decision making; Guidelines; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Protocols; Radio access networks; Radio spectrum management; Resource management; Time division multiple access; Wireless networks; IEEE P1900; RAT selection; heterogeneous networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007. 16th IST

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Electronic_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299186

Filename

4299186