A survey of handover management in mobile HetNets: current challenges and future directions

AU Rehman, MB Roslee, T Jun Jiat - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the rapid growth of data traffic and mobile devices, it is imperative to provide reliable
and stable services during mobility. Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) and dense …

Data-driven handover optimization in small cell networks

S Kumari, B Singh - Wireless Networks, 2019 - Springer
Since the advent of 1G through 5G networks, telecommunication industry has gone through
phenomenal transformation in the way we communicate, we work, and we socialize. In …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven handover optimization in next generation mobile communication networks

PC Lin, LFG Casanova, BKS Fatty - Mobile Information Systems, 2016 - hindawi.com
Network densification is regarded as one of the important ingredients to increase capacity
for next generation mobile communication networks. However, it also leads to mobility …

A novel heuristic for handover priority in mobile heterogeneous networks

DDS Souza, RF Vieira, MCDR Seruffo… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Handover (HO) is designed to facilitate user mobility and ensure quality of service in mobile
networks. In multiple base station (eNodeBs) scenarios, the HO priority process is a problem …

A trade-off between unnecessary handover and handover failure for heterogeneous networks

M Alhabo, L Zhang, N Nawaz - European Wireless 2017; 23th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With fastWith fast growing traffic, high-density small cells (SC) deployment is envisioned in
5G network under the macrocell (MC) coverage area. This will improve the capacity and the …

A novel handover decision-making algorithm for HetNets

A Habibzadeh, SS Moghaddam… - … symposium on signal …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to improve the handover performance in the heterogeneous networks
(HetNet). Since achieving high data rates, low signaling load, and better coverage area are …

An enhanced mobility state estimation based handover optimization algorithm in LTE-A self-organizing network

S Nie, D Wu, M Zhao, X Gu, L Zhang, L Lu - Procedia Computer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous network (HetNet) is considered as a prime way to solve the limits of system
capacity and broadband service coverage in traditional network. However, the deployments …

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 …

Intersystem handover decision model for heterogeneous wireless networks

TE Mathonsi, OP Kogeda… - 2018 Open Innovations …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of mobile users has exponentially grown over the past years, and these users
have the desire of always being connected wirelessly at any time anywhere, to the best …

Analysis and design of an efficient handoff management strategy via velocity estimation in HetNets

R Tiwari, S Deshmukh - Transactions on Emerging …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present an efficient handoff decision strategy and a mobility state detection
(MSD) scheme for heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Due to base station (BS) …