{"title":"Neighbour Cell List Reduction in Multi-Tier Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"Mohanad Alhabo, Naveed Nawaz","volume":176,"journal":"International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering","pagesStart":300,"pagesEnd":305,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/10012145","abstract":"
The ongoing call or data session must be maintained to ensure a good quality of service. This can be accomplished by performing handover procedure while the user is on the move. However, dense deployment of small cells in 5G networks is a challenging issue due to the extensive number of handovers. In this paper, a neighbour cell list method is proposed to reduce the number of target small cells and hence minimizing the number of handovers. The neighbour cell list is built by omitting cells that could cause an unnecessary handover and\/or handover failure because of short time of stay of a user in these cells. A multi-attribute decision making technique, simple additive weighting, is then applied to the optimized neighbour cell list. The performance of the proposed method is analysed and compared with that of the existing methods. Results disclose that our method decreases the candidate small cell list, unnecessary handovers, handover failure and short time of stay cells compared to the competitive method.<\/p>","references":"[1] E. U. T. R. Access, \u201cRadio resource control (rrc),\u201d Protocol specification, vol.\r\n290, 2013.\r\n[2] H. Kalbkhani, S. Yousefi, and M. G. Shayesteh, \u201cAdaptive handover algorithm\r\nin heterogeneous femtocellular networks based on received signal strength\r\nand signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio prediction,\u201d IET Communications,\r\nvol. 8, no. 17, pp. 3061\u20133071, 2014.\r\n[3] S. Kapoor, D. Grace, and T. Clarke, \u201cA base station selection scheme\r\nfor handover in a mobility-aware ultra-dense small cell urban vehicular\r\nenvironment,\u201d in 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on\r\nPersonal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). IEEE, 2017,\r\npp. 1\u20135.\r\n[4] H. Zhang, C. Jiang, J. Cheng, and V. C. 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