LTE, The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice
LTE, The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice
Interference coordination and cancellation for 4G networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Interference management and performance analysis of UMTS/HSPA+ femtocells
IEEE Communications Magazine
Femtocell access control strategy in UMTS and LTE
IEEE Communications Magazine
A Novel Handover Mechanism Between Femtocell and Macrocell for LTE Based Networks
ICCSN '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second International Conference on Communication Software and Networks
Femtocells: Technologies and Deployment
Femtocells: Technologies and Deployment
Adaptive Hysteresis Margin for Handover in Femtocell Networks
ICWMC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 6th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
Robust transmission and interference management for femtocells with unreliable network access
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on cooperative communications in MIMO cellular networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
An open source model for the simulation of LTE handover scenarios and algorithms in ns-3
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest nowadays, as a promising solution to improve indoor coverage and system capacity. Due to the short transmit-receive distance, femtocells can greatly lower transmit power, prolong handset battery life, and enhance the user-perceived Quality of Service (QoS). On the other hand, technical challenges still remain, mainly including interference mitigation, security and mobility management, intercepting wide deployment and adoption by both mobile operators and end users. This paper introduces a novel energy-centric handover decision policy and its accompanied algorithm, towards minimizing the power consumption at the mobile terminal side in the integrated LTE macrocell-femtocell network. The proposed policy is shown to extend the widely-adopted strongest cell policy, by suitably adapting the handover hysteresis margin in accordance with standardized LTE measurements on the tagged user's neighbor cells. Performance evaluation results show that significantly lower interference and power consumption can be attained for the cost of a moderately increased number of network-wide handover executions events.