The impact of propagation environment and velocity on the handover performance of LTE systems

In this paper, a generalized model is proposed to analyze the impact of propagation environment and velocity on the handover performance of user equipment (UE) for long term evolution (LTE) systems. An adaptive time window is defined within the generalized model, to provide additional flexibility to perform handover procedure over conventional reference signal received power (RSRP) and reference signal received quality (RSRQ) based procedures. The proposed algorithm reduces the call dropping rate during handover at the cell boundary of urban cells, due to its enhanced degree of freedom in decision making process. In providing so, the process requires additional statistics, which are readily available at the receiver. Therefore, it does not require any additional computational complexity at UE. Finally, to demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm, simulation results along with the observations are presented.

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