TY - GEN
T1 - An enhanced approach for efficient MBMS handovers in 3G networks
AU - Christophorou, Christophoros
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55849093982&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625652
DO - 10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625652
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:55849093982
SN - 9781424427031
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
SP - 362
EP - 367
BT - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2008, ISCC 2008
T2 - 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2008
Y2 - 6 July 2008 through 9 July 2008
ER -