Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2014 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE |
| Pages | 47-52 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4799-2355-7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4799-2356-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | The 11th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC 2014 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → … |
Conference
| Conference | The 11th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC 2014 |
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| Abbreviated title | CCNC 2014 |
| Country | United States |
| City | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Period | 1/01/14 → … |
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Keywords
- Cell selection
- coverage area
- heterogeneous networks
- information services
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Cell Coverage Area Information Service to Improve Cell Selection in HetNets. / Piri, Esa.
IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE, 2014. p. 47-52.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
TY - GEN
T1 - Cell Coverage Area Information Service to Improve Cell Selection in HetNets
AU - Piri, Esa
N1 - Project code: 74344
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Information services providing diverse information about networks and their services have been widely cited as one of the key factors to better utilize the heterogeneous network environment. However, the current information services do not properly enable determining the base stations that reside within the range and close-by of a mobile device. The serving range of base stations can only be roughly estimated. Moreover, large variation in cell sizes bring additional challenges with respect to mobility management. In this study, a network information service allowing mobile devices to query for information about base station cells near their location is utilized in cell selection. A spatial database is used to store the coverage area geometries of base stations and the base station coverage area and distance information is utilized in cell selection. The paper presents a clustering method for grouping the cells found in the vicinity of a mobile terminal based on the coverage area and their distance to the terminal, which improves the handover target discovery in a dense cell environment. In pedestrian mobility, mobile network operators likely prefer the use of cells with short range for traffic load balancing purposes. Favoring large cells in the high-speed vehicular mobility, the results show that the number of handovers can be significantly decreased, even cut to half from that attained with the conventional cell selection scheme
AB - Information services providing diverse information about networks and their services have been widely cited as one of the key factors to better utilize the heterogeneous network environment. However, the current information services do not properly enable determining the base stations that reside within the range and close-by of a mobile device. The serving range of base stations can only be roughly estimated. Moreover, large variation in cell sizes bring additional challenges with respect to mobility management. In this study, a network information service allowing mobile devices to query for information about base station cells near their location is utilized in cell selection. A spatial database is used to store the coverage area geometries of base stations and the base station coverage area and distance information is utilized in cell selection. The paper presents a clustering method for grouping the cells found in the vicinity of a mobile terminal based on the coverage area and their distance to the terminal, which improves the handover target discovery in a dense cell environment. In pedestrian mobility, mobile network operators likely prefer the use of cells with short range for traffic load balancing purposes. Favoring large cells in the high-speed vehicular mobility, the results show that the number of handovers can be significantly decreased, even cut to half from that attained with the conventional cell selection scheme
KW - Cell selection
KW - coverage area
KW - heterogeneous networks
KW - information services
U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2014.7056313
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2014.7056313
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-4799-2356-4
SP - 47
EP - 52
BT - IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE
ER -