%0 Journal Article
	%A Mohanad Alhabo and  Naveed Nawaz and  Mahmoud Al-Faris
	%D 2021
	%J International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 173, 2021
	%T Integrated Grey Rational Analysis-Standard Deviation Method for Handover in Heterogeneous Networks
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012004
	%V 173
	%X The dense deployment of small cells is a promising
solution to enhance the coverage and capacity of the
heterogeneous networks (HetNets). However, the unplanned
deployment could bring new challenges to the network ranging
from interference, unnecessary handovers and handover failures.
This will cause a degradation in the quality of service (QoS)
delivered to the end user. In this paper, we propose an integrated
Grey Rational Analysis Standard Deviation based handover
method (GRA-SD) for HetNet. The proposed method integrates
the Standard Deviation (SD) technique to acquire the weight of
the handover metrics and the GRA method to select the best
handover base station. The performance of the GRA-SD method
is evaluated and compared with the traditional Multiple Attribute
Decision Making (MADM) methods including Simple Additive
Weighting (SAW) and VIKOR methods. Results reveal that the
proposed method has outperformed the other methods in terms of
minimizing the number of frequent unnecessary handovers and
handover failures, in addition to improving the energy efficiency.
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