A novel handover scheme in moving vehicular femtocell networks

Femtocell is expected to overcome drawbacks of cellular wireless communications in indoor environments. Recently, effective deployment of femtocell networks inside high speed moving vehicles is an interesting topic for researchers. In this paper, we propose a novel handover scheme utilizing coordinated multiple point transmission (CoMP) in high speed moving vehicular femtocell networks. The proposed scheme aims at a seamless, deployable, and efficient handover procedure for this specific environment. We take into account Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) and outage probability to evaluate the performance of our proposed handover scheme.