Abstract
When mobile multimedia applications are considered in a femtocell and macrocell coexisted heterogeneous network, a fast handoff mechanism to select a target femtocell base station (FBS) for macrocell user equipment (MUE) to maintain the QoS turns out to be a major design issue. To address this problem, a fast Stochastic Election Process (SEP) is proposed to assign the initial counter value of each candidate FBS based on the load of the candidate FBS. Simulation results confirm that the proposed load-based handoff mechanism reduces the handoff time greatly.
This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under the grant numbers. 104-2221-E-197-007, 104-2221-E-197-009, 104-2221-E-197-016.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Chandrasekhar, V., Andrews, J., Gatherer, A.: Femtocell networks: a survey. IEEE Commun. Mag. 46(9), 59–67 (2008)
Chowdhury, M.Z., Trung, B.M., Jang, Y.M.: Neighbor cell list optimization for femtocell-to-femtocell handover in dense femtocellular networks. In: 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, pp. 241–245. IEEE Press, New York (2011)
Becvar, Z., Mach, P., Vondra, M.: Optimization of SINR-based neighbor cell list for networks with small cells. In: 24th IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, pp. 2346–2351. IEEE Press, New York (2013)
de Lima, C.H.M., Ghaboosi, K., Bennis, M., MacKenzie, A.B.: A stochastic association mechanism for macro-to-femtocell handover. In: 2010 Conference Record of the Forty Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 1570–1574. IEEE Press, New York (2010)
Tseng, C.C., Wang, C.C., Kuo, F.C., Wang, H.C., Ting, K.C.: A load-balancing handoff mechanism for two-tier femtocell networks: a game approach. In. IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 4723–4728. IEEE Press, New York (2013)
Krishna, V.: Auction Theory. Academic Press, Cambridge (2010)
Easley, D., Kleinberg, J.: Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2010)
3GPP TR 36.814, 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Further advancements for E-UTRA physical layer aspects (Release 9)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
About this paper
Cite this paper
Tseng, CC., Kuo, FC., Wang, HC., Ting, KC., Wang, CC. (2017). Load-Based Fast Handoff Mechanism for Macro-femto Heterogeneous Networks. In: Lee, JH., Pack, S. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. QShine 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 199. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_30
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_30
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-60716-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-60717-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)