Street-Specific Handover Optimization for Vehicular Terminals in Future Cellular Networks

Modern vehicles will have strong requirements with regard to seamless mobility support in future cellular systems, in order to enable advanced cooperative driver assistance and infotainment systems that guarantee traffic safety and efficiency. In this work, we introduce street-specific handover parameters for vehicular terminals. In particular, we propose an adaptive optimization algorithm that exploits vehicle context information in order to tune the handover parameters. Simulation results confirm that the proposed concept has the potential to improve handover performance significantly.