An enhanced approach for efficient MBMS handovers in 3G networks

Christophoros Christophorou, Andreas Pitsillides

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Abstract

With MBMS, a mobile Terminal (MT) that is on the move and receive an MBMS service may have to handover from a Common to a Dedicated Channel when crossing the cell's edge. In previous work, we highlighted the possible inefficiencies which might arise if the existing 3GPP handover control approach is adopted to execute these types of handovers and proposed a specific MBMS handover control approach that compensated for them. This approach, although effective in terms of capacity and QoS, was not very viable. Thus in this paper, using a different approach, we enhance previous work in order to address its deficiencies and make the whole solution practical. The performance evaluation showed that our enhanced proposed approach even with the enhancements made simplifying the whole handover procedure, still outperforms the existing 3GPP handover control approach in terms of capacity and QoS efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, ISCC 2008
Pages362-367
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco
Duration: 6 Jul 20089 Jul 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
ISSN (Print)1530-1346

Conference

Conference13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityMarrakech
Period6/07/089/07/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • General Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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