MacroFemto cell handover with enhanced QoS in Mobile WiMAX

Author

Ellouze, Rami ; Gueroui, Mourad ; Alimi, Adel M.

Author_Institution

PRISM Lab., Univ. of Versailles, Versailles, France

fYear

2011

fDate

13-15 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

WiMAX femtocell is developed to expand cell coverage, increase system capacity and offer various multimedia services with high throughput in indoor environments. However, several aspects of this new technology are ambiguous, such as macro to femtocell handover and management of QoS when a user moves between cells of different types. This paper provides a new procedure for handover between WiMAX macro and femtocells. Our proposal offers three key features: reduces the number of breaks in data submission, guarantees the QoS for the different connections of each user and finally provides load balancing between base stations and WiMAX Femtocell Access Point (WFAP). We validate our assumptions through simulations and numerical analysis. Results show the effectiveness of our solution.

Keywords

WiMax; channel capacity; femtocellular radio; indoor radio; mobile radio; numerical analysis; quality of service; resource allocation; telecommunication network management; QoS management; WiMAX femtocell access point; base stations; data submission; indoor environments; load balancing; macrofemto cell handover; mobile WiMAX; multimedia services; numerical analysis; system capacity; Base stations; Computer architecture; Microprocessors; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Quality of service; WiMAX; Handover; Load Balancing; Mobile WiMAX; QoS Management; WiMAX Femtocell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 2011

Conference_Location

New York City, NY

ISSN

1934-5070

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0162-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WTS.2011.5960837

Filename

5960837