Mobility robustness optimization beyond Doppler effect and WSS assumption

Mobility robustness is often understood as making the radio link Doppler-resistent. However, guaranteeing proper cell changes, e.g. handovers, is another, as important and at least as challenging aspect beyond Doppler and wide sense stationarity (WSS) assumption. This paper tries to describe the complex optimization problem with scientific methods, in order to catalyze future academic work in the interesting field of minimizing handover problems. Simulation results will be presented for intra-frequency mobility robustness optimization (MRO) distinguishing network-wide, cell-specific and cell-pair specific optimization.

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