Abstract
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
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2014 |
Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
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 → … |
Keywords
- Cell selection
- coverage area
- heterogeneous networks
- information services