Title :
On a handover algorithm in a PCS1900/GSM/DCS1800 network
Author :
Wigard, Jaoen ; Nielsen, Thomas Toftegaard ; Michaelsen, Per Henrik ; Morgensen, P.
Author_Institution :
Center for PersonKommuniation, Aalborg, Denmark
Abstract :
Traffic reason handover is a functionality that distributes the traffic out over the network according to the traffic load. This can decrease the blocking and thus increase the quality of service (QoS). Its potential gain is analytically calculated and network simulations are performed to evaluate the performance. It is shown that the capacity gain from traffic reason handover is depending on the size of the cell overlap, the number of channels per cell and on how uniform the traffic is spread geographically over the network. Simulations show that even in a situation with uniformly distributed traffic, which is the worst case situation, the use of traffic reason handover decreases the blocking
Keywords :
cellular radio; channel capacity; digital radio; digital simulation; personal communication networks; probability; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; PCS1900/GSM/DCS1800 network; QoS; blocking probability; blocking reduction; capacity gain; cell overlap size; handover algorithm; network simulations; performance evaluation; quality of service; simulations; traffic distribution; traffic load; traffic reason handover; uniformly distributed traffic; Intelligent networks; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999 IEEE 49th
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5565-2
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1999.778536
