Title :
Hard handover vs soft handover in a city
Author :
Bchini, Tarek ; Tabbane, Nabil ; Chaput, Emmanuel ; Tabbane, Sami ; Beylot, Andre-Luc
Author_Institution :
Mediatron, Sup´´Com, Tunis, Tunisia
Abstract :
In order to offer a better QoS during L2 handover of a mobile station, we propose in this paper to compare the performance of the two L2 HO techniques: Soft and Hard handover for different types of traffic with same architecture IEEE 802.16e in an urban area (City).
Keywords :
broadband networks; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; IEEE 802.16e; L2 techniques; QoS; hard handover; mobile station; soft handover; urban area; Amplitude modulation; Application software; Cities and towns; Convolutional codes; Labeling; Oral communication; Signal processing; Source coding; Vector quantization; Viterbi algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2009. ISCC 2009. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sousse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4672-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1346
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202262
