Mobility management for femtocells in LTE-advanced: Key aspects and survey of handover decision algorithms

D Xenakis, N Passas, L Merakos… - … surveys & tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

A survey of handover management in LTE-based multi-tier femtocell networks: Requirements, challenges and solutions

G Gódor, Z Jakó, Á Knapp, S Imre - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous mobile communication requires increased capacity and appropriate quality
guarantee for services. To meet these demands next-generation mobile network operators …

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

R Ahmad, EA Sundararajan, A Khalifeh - Telecommunication Systems, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Heterogeneous Network is widely used in the Fifth Generation wireless
network to solve the problem of increasing demand on wireless communication. Femtocell …

Handover management in high-dense femtocellular networks

MZ Chowdhury, YM Jang - EURASIP Journal on Wireless …, 2013 - Springer
Femtocell technology is envisioned to be widely deployed in subscribers' homes to provide
high data rate communications with quality of service. Dense deployment of femtocells will …

Handover procedure and decision strategy in LTE-based femtocell network

A Ulvan, R Bestak, M Ulvan - Telecommunication systems, 2013 - Springer
Wireless systems have the capability to serve users over broad geographic area without
using a costly network infrastructure. However, the main drawback of these systems …

Mobility management schemes at radio network layer for LTE femtocells

L Wang, Y Zhang, Z Wei - VTC Spring 2009-IEEE 69th …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femtocell, a small cellular base station in home and small business environment, is an
attractive solution for operators to improve indoor coverage and network capacity in 3G …

Access control mechanisms for femtocells

G De La Roche, A Valcarce… - IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femtocells are a solution that helps to reduce the capital and operational expenditure of a
mobile network while enhancing system coverage and capacity. However, the avoidance of …

Signalling cost evaluation of handover management schemes in LTE-advanced femtocell

H Zhang, W Ma, W Li, W Zheng… - 2011 IEEE 73rd …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femtocell is a small access point using the wire broadband connections or wireless
technologies to access the mobile operator's network for the user equipment (UE), which …

On accurate simulations of LTE femtocells using an open source simulator

F Capozzi, G Piro, LA Grieco, G Boggia… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2012 - Springer
Long-term evolution (LTE) femtocells represent a very promising answer to the ever growing
bandwidth demand of mobile applications. They can be easily deployed without requiring a …

An advanced SOM algorithm applied to handover management within LTE

N Sinclair, D Harle, IA Glover, J Irvine… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel approach to handover management for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) femtocells is
presented. Within LTE, the use of self-organizing networks (SONs) is included as standard …