Handover implementation for femtocell deployment in LTE heterogeneous networks

• Published in: 2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2019
• Main Author: Yusof A.L.; Ali M.S.N.; Ya'Acob N.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075931012&doi=10.1109%2fISNCC.2019.8909132&partnerID=40&md5=d0971c3d733c221bb6c3f04290e4c86a

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the latest mobile network technology that design to further increases of network capacity and coverage. An extensive research on femtocell network known as Home eNodeB has been investigated in LTE to improve the indoor network capacity and further extension of the coverage area in wireless communication networks. However, the handover process in femtocell has becomes a major challenge due to a frequent and unnecessary handover which can increase of handover failure probability rate. Therefore, the main obj ectives of this research is to derive a mathematical formulation of the dynamic boundary area size by incorporating value of user's speed and signaling delay in adaptive Reference Signal Received Power threshold (RSRPth) to ensure the determination of the right femtocell handoff initiation time. In order to observe the value of RSRPth, the users' speed and signaling delay were analyzed based on the probability of false handoff initiation (pa) and probability of handover failure (Pf). The simulation results show that the proposed values of adaptive RSRPth has better performance in initiating a handoff when the speed and signaling delay time varies. The preferred values avoid from sending too early or too late initiation of the femtocell handoff process and hence offload traffic from the heavily loaded macrocells. © 2019 IEEE.