Handover schemes in heterogeneous LTE networks: challenges and opportunities

Y Li, B Cao, C Wang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… more important than that in macrocell networks. On one hand… Reference [6] proposes a
distance-based handover scheme. … -coverage femtocells overlay each other in a macro-femto

A survey on femtocell handover management in dense heterogeneous 5G networks

R Ahmad, EA Sundararajan, A Khalifeh - Telecommunication Systems, 2020 - Springer
… or femtocell) under conventional cells [7, 8]. This structure of HetNet is called two-tier network,
the macrocell or … In this paper, the femtocell from the second tier perspective is discussed. …

QoS-based multi-criteria handoff algorithm for femto-macro cellular networks

H Kalbkhani, S Jafarpour-Alamdari… - Wireless Personal …, 2018 - Springer
… outage probability of each of femtocell and macrocell networks. The proposed algorithm first
… A distance-based handover scheme for femtocell and macrocell overlaid networks. In 2012 …

Handoff optimization in macrocell and femtocell LTE heterogeneous network

MSN Ali, AL Yusof, N Ya'acob, M Ismail… - Journal of …, 2017 - jtec.utem.edu.my
… frameworks to minimize the unnecessary handover for femtocell to femtocell and macrocell
to … A Distance-Based Handover Scheme for Femtocell and Macrocell Overlaid Networks. 0–3. …

Utilization efficient game-theoretical handover scheme for macro-femtocell networks

Q Hua, Y Su, T Sato, K Yu - 2017 20th International Symposium …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… limited coverage of Femtocell base stations. … of handover. However, the Markov decision
process can’t ensure the maximum utilization balance of Macrocell base stations and Femtocell

Nearest Distance Based Downlink Rate Modeling in Hyper-dense Heterogeneous Wireless Cell Networks

S Fang - Wireless Personal Communications, 2020 - Springer
… Hyper-dense multi-tier heterogeneous wireless cell networks, in which macro cell is overlaid
stochastically with picocells and femtocells to improve the communicate rate satisfying the …

A survey on handover management: From LTE to NR

M Tayyab, X Gelabert, R Jäntti - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… A distance-based HO scheme for macro and femto cells was proposed in [23] to minimize …
data volume of femto is larger than the macro cell and the time user stay in femto cell is greater …

Towards studying the two-tier intra-frequency X2 handover based on software-defined open LTE platform

J Jia, G Liu, D Han, J Wang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of macrocells overlaid with femtocells, which is referred to as Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets).
In macro-… The authors in [6] proposes a distance-based handover scheme. In this …

[PDF][PDF] Handover Analysis and Coverage Modelling in Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks

H Gu, H Inaltekint, BS Krongold - … of the IEEE …, 2019 - minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au
… of UAVs with limited and overlapped coverage areas and … or femtocells are introduced to
offload traffic from macrocells … of BSs are determined by distance based partitioning (ie, any …

REM-based handover algorithm for next-generation multi-tier cellular networks

C Suarez-Rodriguez, BA Jayawickrama… - … and Networking …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… an area under the overlapped coverage of different tier cells, … avoid such handovers,
remaining camped on the macrocell. … We have also included geographical distance-based