Abstract:
One of the most important benefits of femtocells is possibility to offload macrocells. Therefore, an interest of operators is to prolong a time spent by users connected t...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
One of the most important benefits of femtocells is possibility to offload macrocells. Therefore, an interest of operators is to prolong a time spent by users connected to the femtocells. However, the longer time in the femtocell can brings lower quality of service due to lower quality of communication channel. Hence, the operators should compensate the drop in quality to users. A way of prolongation of time in femtocells is to initiate handover to the femtocell as soon as possible and postpone handover from the femtocell. This paper analyzes impact of modified hysteresis on several handover decision strategies. For this purpose, the handover decision phase is adjusted to prolong the time spent by users in the femtocells. This way, macrocells can be offloaded. The time spent in femtocells is prolonged according to customers' willingness to tolerate worse quality of connection in exchange for lower cost of connection provided by the femtocell.
Published in: Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2012
Date of Conference: 18-20 April 2012
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 August 2012
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