Joint characterization of outage probability and handover performance in cellular mobile networks

Author

Graziosi, F. ; Pratesi, M. ; Ruggieri, M. ; Santucci, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., l´´Aquila Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 May 1998

Firstpage

1054

Abstract

An approach to performance evaluation of cellular mobile networks is proposed, which includes the behavior of handover algorithms in the computation of outage probability. In a general system scenario, with a central cluster and a first tier of interferers, the average outage probability is computed along a trip of the mobile terminal that involves crossing the boundary between adjacent cells. The effects of correlated co-channel interferers are accounted for in the computation of outage probability, as well as in the dynamics of a relative signal strength handover algorithm. Numerical results are presented in terms of average outage probability versus the average number of handovers at various cluster size and cross-correlation parameters

Keywords

cellular radio; cochannel interference; correlation methods; probability; radio networks; adjacent cells boundary crossing; average outage probability; cellular mobile networks; central cluster; cluster size; correlated co-channel interferers; cross-correlation parameters; handover algorithms; handover performance; mobile terminal; performance evaluation; relative signal strength; Cellular networks; Clustering algorithms; Computer networks; Delay; Fading; Frequency; Intelligent networks; Interchannel interference; Mobile computing; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1998. VTC 98. 48th IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1998.686401

Filename

686401