Due to the development of femtocell technologies, indoor LTE/LTE-A signal quality can be
significantly improved. However, since femtocells and macrocell are deployed into a …

In the two-tier femtocell networks, a macrocell user equipment (MUE) initiates a handoff
procedure when the received signal strength from its serving macrocell base station (MBS) …

LTE-A networks consists of numerous networking technologies and do not possess a central
controlling system. In general, users can navigate freely within a network without losing the …

In this paper, we propose an efficient handover mechanism for Long Term Evolution (LTE)
networks. Both moving direction prediction and Time-to-Trigger (TTT) adjustment are taken …

Abstract The Long-Term Evolution technology called 4G is a recent expertise that was
presented by 3GPP for smooth system migration. The main issues in LTE networks are …

With the increasing demand on data rate in 5G mobile networks, the deployment of small
cells such as Femto Access Points (FAP) and device-device (D2D) communications in …

Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest nowadays, as a promising solution to
improve indoor coverage and system capacity. Due to the short transmit-receive distance …

Femtocells will play a key role for the wide adoption of the LTE-Advanced system, as they
bring the access network closer to the end user in a cost-effective manner. This disruptive …

This paper presents a novel Handover mechanism to minimize target Femto Access Points
(FAPs) list during macro-to-femto and femto-to-femto handover in LTE based Macro-Femto …

Cell handover has been considered as one of the most challenging issues in LTE-A macro-
femtocell networks, due to the ad hoc deployment nature of Femto Base Stations (FBSs). In …