Abstract
Various approaches to analyze handover have been developed to guarantee the quality of service of multimedia services over mobile communication networks. However, no framework for multicarrier-based broadband systems, e.g., multicarrier code-division multiple access and orthogonal frequency-division multiple access, is available based on the perspective of link capacity. This paper presents a handover technique referred to as semisoft-handover-utilizing macroscopic diversity, which permits both hard and soft handover advantages for services over multicarrier-based broadband networks to be retained. Theoretical analysis is then performed to measure the handover gain over the forward link in terms of an outage probability. Simulation data verify that semisoft handover outperforms other traditional handover techniques, in particular for high-data-rate services.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1443-1453 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received October 19, 2006; revised April 9, 2007, July 17, 2007, November 13, 2007, March 3, 2008, and May 13, 2008. First published June 6, 2008; current version published March 17, 2009. This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea, under the Information Technology Research Center Support Program and supervised by the Institute of Information Technology Assessment under Contract IITA-2008-C1090-0801-0011 and by the Korea Research Foundation Grant, which is funded by the Korean Government under Contract KRF-2008-314-D00287. The review of this paper was coordinated by Dr. P. Lin.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Automotive Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Applied Mathematics