Handover Performance over a Coordinated Contiguous Carrier Aggregation Deployment Scenario in the LTE-Advanced System

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameter	Assumption Value
Cellular Layout	Hexagonal grid, 61 cell sites, 3 Sectors per cell site, 2 CCs per Sector
Minimum Distance between UE and eNB	35 meters
Total eNB TX Power	46 dBm per CC
Shadowing Standard Deviation	8 dB
White Noise Power Density (Nt)	−174 dBm/Hz.
eNBs Noise Figure	5 dB
Thermal Noise Power (Np)	Np = Nt + 10 dB
UE Noise Figure	9 dB
Operation Carrier Bandwidth	20 MHz (PCC and SCC)
Total System Bandwidth	40 MHz (2CC s × 20 MHz)
Carriers Frequencies	2 GHz, 2.023 GHz and 3.5 GHz
Number of Physical Resource Block (PRBs) per CC	100 PRBs/CC
Number Subcarriers/PRB	12 Subcarriers per FRB.
Number of OFDM Symbols per Subframe	7
Sub-carrier Spacing	15 kHz
Resource Block Bandwidth	180 kHz
Q_rxlevmin	−101.5 dBm
Measurement Interval	50 ms for PCC and SCC
Time-to-Trigger	320 ms
Handover Margin (HOM)	6 dB
Each X2-interface delay	10 ms
Each eNB Process Delay	10 ms
T311	10 s
Simulation Time	330 s