Group Cell Architecture for Future Mobile Communication System

This paper describes some new contributions to the Generalized Distributed Antenna Architecture-Group Cell for future mobile communication system. The system architecture is described which allows the integration of multiple antenna techniques, e.g., MIMO, by spaced MIMO, distributed MIMO and virtual MIMO structure. The Slide Handover strategy based on the Group Cell architecture is also introduced with the Minimum Dwelling Time (MDT) based channel reserved prioritization algorithm in details. The capacity of Group Cell architecture and the performance of MDT algorithm based Slide Handover are analyzed. System level simulation results are given to show the performance increment of Group Cell architecture and Slide Handover strategy respectively.