Signalling Overhead Evaluation of HeNB Mobility Enhanced Schemes in 3GPP LTE-Advanced

Home eNodeB (HeNB) is a low-power access point using the local broadband connections or a separate RF backhaul to access the mobile operator's network for the user equipment(UE), which can provide better indoor coverage and satisfy the upcoming demand of high data rate for users. Considering the potential frequent mobility between HeNB-HeNB and HeNBeNB, HeNB mobility enhancement is proposed as one of the most important work items in 3GPP LTE-Advanced. In this paper, four X2 interface based HeNB mobility enhanced architectures are explicitly discussed in terms of signalling overhead evaluation. The numerical results show that the direct-X2 based option 2 in HeNB-HeNB scenario and the X2-GW based option 3 in eNB-HeNB scenario have the best trade-off in signalling overhead and complexity respectively.

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