Ripple algorithm: An LTE load balance mechanism with distributed and heuristic approach

Author

Tangtrongpairoj, Withawat ; Jansang, Aphirak ; Phonphoem, Anan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2013

fDate

29-31 May 2013

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

115

Abstract

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) has been proposed for supporting higher bandwidth applications and large amount of users by installing many base stations known as eNodeBs. However, in an area, users may associate with some particular eNodeBs which may cause the unbalanced load distribution. In this paper, a heuristic load balance algorithm called Ripple Algorithm has been proposed. The algorithm is designed as a distributed algorithm without global knowledge assumption. The results show that the algorithm can perform well in many testing scenarios with low complexity.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; distributed algorithms; LTE load balance mechanism; Long Term Evolution; bandwidth application; base stations; distributed approach; eNodeBs; heuristic load balance algorithm; ripple algorithm; unbalanced load distribution; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Base stations; Complexity theory; Heuristic algorithms; Load management; Long Term Evolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE), 2013 10th International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Maha Sarakham

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0805-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCSSE.2013.6567329

Filename

6567329