Limited Comp Handover Algorithm For LTE-Advanced

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameters	Values
Cellular layout	Hexagonal grid, wrap around (reflect), 7 cells
Radius	100 m
Carrier frequency	2 GHz
Bandwidth	5 MHz
SubCarrier spacing	15 kHz
Slot duration	0.5 ms
Number of OFDM symbols/slot	7
Number of RBs	25
Number of subcarriers per RB	12
Path loss	Cost 231 Hata model
Shadow fading	Gaussian log normal distribution model
Multipath	Nonfrequency selective Rayleigh fading model
Modulation and coding scheme	QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM
Packet scheduler	Round robin
Scheduling time (TTI)	1 ms
Data traffic	1 Mbps constant stream
Number of UE	30, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, and 300
UE’s position	Fixed uniform distributed
UE’s direction	Randomly choose from [0, 2π], constant at all time
UE’s velocity	120 km/hr
Simulation time	5000 ms
RSRP measurement period	10 ms
Handover margin	{1,2,3,4,5} dB
Time to trigger (TTT)	5 ms
Size of CCS	3
Size of CTP	2