Adapting handover parameters for reducing failed connection transfers in next generation heterogeneous wireless networks

One of the objectives concerning fifth generation (5G) communication systems is tending to the growing amounts of user and the mobile data. The deployment of heterogeneous networks (HetNet) is an option to increase the capacity of these systems, but it also increases the amount of connection transfe...

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Autores: Bastidas Puga, Enrique René, Galaviz Yáñez, Guillermo, Andrade Reátiga, Ángel Gabriel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Entreciencias: diálogos en la sociedad del conocimiento
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/62093
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/entreciencias/article/view/62093
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Palabra clave:Handover
heterogeneous network (HetNet)
5G communication systems
SINR prediction.
Transferencia de conexión
red heterogénea (HetNet)
sistema de comunicación 5G
predicción de SINR.
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Sumario:One of the objectives concerning fifth generation (5G) communication systems is tending to the growing amounts of user and the mobile data. The deployment of heterogeneous networks (HetNet) is an option to increase the capacity of these systems, but it also increases the amount of connection transfers (handovers), as well as the quantity of handover failures and ping-pong handovers. To reduce these failures, that deteriorate the network quality of service, a method is proposed in order to adapt the parameters that control the handover starting time, time-to-trigger (TTT) and handover-margin (HOM), based on the signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR). Numerical evaluations show a simultaneous reduction of the handover failure rate and the ping-pong handover rate for the proposed method with a perfect knowledge of future SINR) values, as opposed to a handover procedure with constant parameters, which presents a tradeoff among both failures.