Performance of handoff algorithm based on distance and RSSI measurements

@article{citeulike:796957, abstract = {The performance of a proposed handoff algorithm based on both the distance of a mobile station to neighboring base stations and the relative signal strength measurements is evaluated. The algorithm performs handoff when the measured distance from the serving base station exceeds that from the candidate base station by a given threshold and if the measured signal strength of the adjacent base station exceeds that of the serving base station by a given hysteresis level. The average handoff delay and average number of handoffs are used as criteria for performance. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the distance-based handoff algorithm, including results for an additional criterion based on relative signal strength. The proposed algorithm is compared with an algorithm based on absolute and relative signal strength measurements and with a solely distance-based algorithm. It is found that the proposed handoff algorithm performs well in a log-normal fading environment when the distance estimate error is modeled by wide-sense stationary additive white Gaussian noise.}, author = {Itoh, K. I. and Watanabe, S. and Shih, J. S. and Sato, T. }, citeulike-article-id = {796957}, journal = {Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {algorithm, and, based, distance, handoff, measurements, of, on, performance, rssi}, number = {6}, pages = {1460--1468}, posted-at = {2006-09-06 17:26:44}, priority = {5}, title = {Performance of handoff algorithm based on distance and RSSI measurements}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=1175200}, volume = {51}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:796957 L3 - citeulike-article-id:796957 TI - Performance of handoff algorithm based on distance and RSSI measurements JF - Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on VL - 51 IS - 6 SP - 1460 EP - 1468 N2 - The performance of a proposed handoff algorithm based on both the distance of a mobile station to neighboring base stations and the relative signal strength measurements is evaluated. The algorithm performs handoff when the measured distance from the serving base station exceeds that from the candidate base station by a given threshold and if the measured signal strength of the adjacent base station exceeds that of the serving base station by a given hysteresis level. The average handoff delay and average number of handoffs are used as criteria for performance. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the distance-based handoff algorithm, including results for an additional criterion based on relative signal strength. The proposed algorithm is compared with an algorithm based on absolute and relative signal strength measurements and with a solely distance-based algorithm. It is found that the proposed handoff algorithm performs well in a log-normal fading environment when the distance estimate error is modeled by wide-sense stationary additive white Gaussian noise. KW - algorithm KW - and KW - based KW - distance KW - handoff KW - measurements KW - of KW - on KW - performance KW - rssi AU - Itoh, KI AU - Watanabe, S AU - Shih, JS AU - Sato, T PY - 2002/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1175200 ER -