Novel Handover Decision Method in Wireless Communication Systems with Multiple Antennas

Handover has been the most important thing for supporting the mobility and has been researched in various wireless communication systems. Handover schemes in systems with multiple antennas, the technology highlighted for 4G wireless communications to increase the capacity, have frequently been made and considered to be very important. However, handover decision method using the number of multiple antennas has not been researched. In this paper, we propose a new handover decision method using the number of detected antennas and list requirements and distinctive features for this scheme. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme and conventional scheme trigger handovers at the almost same point. Since our proposed scheme is simpler than the conventional scheme, it has the better performance in view of feedback quantity.