A novel scheme to resolve PCI conflicts and assignment problems in LTE-femtocell networks

Author

Abdullah, Lili Marziana ; Baba, Mohd Dani ; Ali, Sinan Ghassan Abid

Author_Institution

Centre for Comput. Eng., Univ. Teknol. MARA Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

19-20 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

112

Abstract

Physical Cell Identity (PCI) assignments and conflicts are still posing huge challenges in the LTE-femtocell based network. This challenges stem from the problem of only 504 unique PCls are available in the LTE network. In this work we propose an approach to solve this problem with minimum needs of human intervention, besides preserving the network resources by discarding the need of periodically updating the network neighbor list and also discarding the need to resolve searching conflict and healing.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; femtocellular radio; LTE-Femtocell based network; PCI assignments; PCI conflicts; assignment problems; human intervention; network neighbor list; network resources; physical cell identity; searching conflict; searching healing; Broadband communication; Buildings; Conferences; DSL; Ports (Computers); Systems engineering and theory; Ultrafast electronics; LTE; Physical cell identity; Self Organizing Network; femtocell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Engineering and Technology (ICSET), 2013 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shah Alam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1028-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEngT.2013.6650153

Filename

6650153