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| Title: | Interactions Study of Self Optimizing Schemes in LTE Femtocell Networks |
| Authors: | El-murtadi Suleiman, Kais |
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| Keywords: | LTE
Interaction
CAC
Self Organizing Network
Load Balancing
Evaluation
SON
LTE-Advanced
LTE-A
Long Term Evolution
Guideline
Recommendation
Self Optimizing Network
Optimization
Femtocell
Organization
Use Case
Handover
Coordination
Call Admission Control |
| Issue Date: | 6-Dec-2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | Canadian theses |
| Abstract: | One of the enabling technologies for Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments is the
femtocell technology. By having femtocells deployed indoors and closer to the user,
high data rate services can be provided efficiently. These femtocells are expected
to be depolyed in large numbers which raises many technical challenges including
the handover management. In fact, managing handovers in femtocell environments,
with the conventional manual adjustment techniques, is almost impossible to keep
pace with in such a rapidly growing femtocell environment. Therefore, doing this
automatically by implementing Self Organizing Network (SON) use cases becomes a
necessity rather than an option. However, having multiple SON use cases operating
simultaneously with a shared objective could cause them to interact either negatively
or positively. In both cases, designing a suitable coordination policy is critical in
solving negative conflicts and building upon positive benefits.
In this work, we focus on studying the interactions between three self optimization
use cases aiming at improving the overall handover procedure in LTE femtocell
networks. These self optimization use cases are handover, Call Admission Control
(CAC) and load balancing. We develop a comprehensive, unified LTE compliant
evaluation environment. This environment is extendable to other radio access technologies
including LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), and can also be used to study other SON
use cases. Various recommendations made by main bodies in the area of femtocells
are considered including the Small Cell Forum, the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
Additionally, traffic sources are simulated in compliance with these recommendations
and evaluation methodologies. We study the interaction between three representative
handover related self optimization schemes. We start by testing these schemes separately,
in order to make sure that they meet their individual goals, and then their
mutual interactions when operating simultaneously. Based on these experiments, we
recommend several guidelines that can help mobile network operators and researchers
in designing better coordination policies. |
| Description: | Thesis (Master, Electrical & Computer Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2012-12-05 22:35:27.538 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7683 |
| Appears in Collections: | Queen's Theses & Dissertations
Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Theses
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