Group Handover Management in Mobile Femtocellular Network Deployment

TL;DR

This paper addresses resource management for group handovers in mobile femtocellular networks, proposing a scheme that reduces call drops while maintaining bandwidth efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces a novel resource management scheme with bandwidth adaptation and reservation policies tailored for group handovers in mobile femtocell deployments.

Findings

Significantly reduces handover call dropping probability

Maintains high bandwidth utilization

Effective in various group handover scenarios

Abstract

The mobile femtocell is the new paradigm for the femtocellular network deployment. It can enhance the service quality for the users inside the vehicles. The deployment of mobile femtocells generates lot of handover calls. Also, number of group handover scenarios are found in mobile femtocellular network deployment. In this paper, we focus on the resource management for the group handover in mobile femtocellular network deployment. We discuss a number of group handover scenarios. We propose a resource management scheme that contains bandwidth adaptation policy and dynamic bandwidth reservation policy. The simulation results show that the proposed bandwidth management scheme significantly reduces the handover call dropping probability without reducing the bandwidth utilization.