New Weight Function for Adapting Handover Margin Level over Contiguous Carrier Aggregation Deployment Scenarios in LTE-Advanced System

Ibraheem Shayea*, Mahamod Ismail, Rosdiadee Nordin, Mustafa Ergen, Norulhusna Ahmad, Nor Fadzilah Abdullah, Abdulraqeb Alhammadi, Hafizal Mohamad

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Abstract

In this paper, an Adaptive Handover Margin algorithm based on Novel Weight Function (AHOM-NWF) is proposed through Carrier Aggregation operation in Long Term Evolution—Advanced system. The AHOM-NWF algorithm automatically adjusts the Handover Margin level based on three functions, f(SINR),f(TL)andf(v), which are evaluated as functions of Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio (SINR), Traffic Load (TL) , and User’s velocity (v) respectively. The weight of each function is taken into account in order to estimate an accurate margin level. Furthermore, a mathematical model for estimating the weight of each function is formulated by a simple model. However, AHOM-NWF algorithm will contribute for the perspective of SINR improvement, cell edge spectral efficiency enhancement and outage probability reduction. Simulation results have shown that the AHOM-NWF algorithm enhances system performance more than the other considered algorithms from the literature by 24.4, 14.6 and 17.9%, as average gains over all the considered algorithms in terms of SINR, cell edge spectral efficiency and outage probability reduction respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1179-1199
Number of pages21
JournalWireless Personal Communications
Volume108
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2019

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Keywords

  • Adaptive handover margin
  • Carrier aggregation
  • Cell edge throughput and outage probability
  • LTE-advanced
  • Weight function

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