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Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria

Femtocell is a small base station that deployed in homes, buildings or other locations and designed to improve indoor capacity and signal coverage, and also reduce the macrocell traffic Femtocell becomes a solution for indoor capacity and coverage issues. Frequent and unnecessary Handover is another...

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Main Author: Zakaria, Nurul Afzan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79049/1/79049.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.790492024-07-29T01:49:31Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79049/ Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria Zakaria, Nurul Afzan Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control Femtocell is a small base station that deployed in homes, buildings or other locations and designed to improve indoor capacity and signal coverage, and also reduce the macrocell traffic Femtocell becomes a solution for indoor capacity and coverage issues. Frequent and unnecessary Handover is another issue in femtocell network. The UEs with various velocities moving through the femtocell usually lead problem and perform frequent and unnecessary handovers especially for high speed users. These cause the reduction of the system capacity and the QoS level. In this project, handover algorithm between macrocell and femtocell has been proposed and developed based on User Equipment (UK) velocity and Receive Signal Strength (RSS). The proposed handover algorithm divide into two parts which is handover from macrocell to femtocell (hand-in) handover from femtocell to macrocell (hand-out). This proposed algorithm was developed and simulated to evaluate the performance of handover procedure in order to minimize an unnecessary handover, enhance the system capacity and improve the user's QoS level in the femtocell networks. Simulation results show the proposed algorithm gives the better simulation result and achievement to minimize an unnecessary handover and also decrease the number of handover failure. The handover procedures between macrocell and femtocell by using proposed scheme are efficient and reliable compared to conventional handover. The optimization of handover procedure and algorithm will improve the performance of both femtocell and LTE networks. 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79049/1/79049.pdf Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria. (2013) pp. 1-7.
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topic Wireless communication systems. Mobile communication systems. Access control
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Zakaria, Nurul Afzan
Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria
description Femtocell is a small base station that deployed in homes, buildings or other locations and designed to improve indoor capacity and signal coverage, and also reduce the macrocell traffic Femtocell becomes a solution for indoor capacity and coverage issues. Frequent and unnecessary Handover is another issue in femtocell network. The UEs with various velocities moving through the femtocell usually lead problem and perform frequent and unnecessary handovers especially for high speed users. These cause the reduction of the system capacity and the QoS level. In this project, handover algorithm between macrocell and femtocell has been proposed and developed based on User Equipment (UK) velocity and Receive Signal Strength (RSS). The proposed handover algorithm divide into two parts which is handover from macrocell to femtocell (hand-in) handover from femtocell to macrocell (hand-out). This proposed algorithm was developed and simulated to evaluate the performance of handover procedure in order to minimize an unnecessary handover, enhance the system capacity and improve the user's QoS level in the femtocell networks. Simulation results show the proposed algorithm gives the better simulation result and achievement to minimize an unnecessary handover and also decrease the number of handover failure. The handover procedures between macrocell and femtocell by using proposed scheme are efficient and reliable compared to conventional handover. The optimization of handover procedure and algorithm will improve the performance of both femtocell and LTE networks.
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author Zakaria, Nurul Afzan
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title Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria
title_short Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria
title_full Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria
title_fullStr Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria
title_full_unstemmed Handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network: article / Nurul Afzan Zakaria
title_sort handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell in long term evolution (lte) network: article / nurul afzan zakaria
publishDate 2013
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79049/1/79049.pdf
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