TY - GEN
T1 - A NEHO based MBMS handover control approach
AU - Christophorou, Christophoros
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Handover Control is one of the essential means to guarantee the continuity of mobile services to a user traveling in a cellular infrastructure, without interruption. In previous work we illustrated that using the current 3GPP specified handover control algorithm to provide continuity of MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) services to a user crossing cell boundaries results either in capacity or QoS inefficiencies and proposed a new MEHO (Mobile Evaluated Handover) based MBMS handover control algorithm that compensated for them. This algorithm, although effective in terms of capacity and QoS, has some limitations concerning the way certain parameters vital for the efficient MBMS handover execution are estimated. In this paper, using a different approach (Network Evaluated Handover (NEHO)), we enhance previous work and propose a different method, that eliminates all of its predecessor's deficiencies while achieving the same capacity and QoS efficiencies.
AB - Handover Control is one of the essential means to guarantee the continuity of mobile services to a user traveling in a cellular infrastructure, without interruption. In previous work we illustrated that using the current 3GPP specified handover control algorithm to provide continuity of MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) services to a user crossing cell boundaries results either in capacity or QoS inefficiencies and proposed a new MEHO (Mobile Evaluated Handover) based MBMS handover control algorithm that compensated for them. This algorithm, although effective in terms of capacity and QoS, has some limitations concerning the way certain parameters vital for the efficient MBMS handover execution are estimated. In this paper, using a different approach (Network Evaluated Handover (NEHO)), we enhance previous work and propose a different method, that eliminates all of its predecessor's deficiencies while achieving the same capacity and QoS efficiencies.
KW - Mbms
KW - Network evaluated handover control
KW - RRM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=69949132428&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699610
DO - 10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699610
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:69949132428
SN - 9781424426447
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
BT - 2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2008
T2 - 2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2008
Y2 - 15 September 2008 through 18 September 2008
ER -