A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions
With the rapid growth of data traffic and mobile devices, it is imperative to provide reliable and stable services during mobility. Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) and dense networks have been identified as potential solutions to address the upcoming capacity crunch, but they also pose significant...
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| description | With the rapid growth of data traffic and mobile devices, it is imperative to provide reliable and stable services during mobility. Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) and dense networks have been identified as potential solutions to address the upcoming capacity crunch, but they also pose significant challenges related to handover optimization. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent handover decision algorithms in HetNets, categorizing them based on their decision techniques and summarizing their input parameters, techniques, and performance evaluations. Our study highlights the technical challenges and opportunities related to handovers in HetNets and dense cellular networks and provides key findings from recent studies. The significance of this survey is to provide a comprehensive overview of handover decision algorithms in HetNets and dense cellular networks, which can aid in the development of more advanced handover optimization approaches. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-80ea281809f6406190201c3cc8ead8f32023-11-17T07:22:52ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-03-01135336710.3390/app13053367A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future DirectionsAziz Ur Rehman0Mardeni Bin Roslee1Tiang Jun Jiat2Centre for Wireless Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 63100, MalaysiaCentre for Wireless Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 63100, MalaysiaCentre for Wireless Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 63100, MalaysiaWith the rapid growth of data traffic and mobile devices, it is imperative to provide reliable and stable services during mobility. Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) and dense networks have been identified as potential solutions to address the upcoming capacity crunch, but they also pose significant challenges related to handover optimization. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent handover decision algorithms in HetNets, categorizing them based on their decision techniques and summarizing their input parameters, techniques, and performance evaluations. Our study highlights the technical challenges and opportunities related to handovers in HetNets and dense cellular networks and provides key findings from recent studies. The significance of this survey is to provide a comprehensive overview of handover decision algorithms in HetNets and dense cellular networks, which can aid in the development of more advanced handover optimization approaches.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/5/3367handoverself-optimizationheterogeneous networksmobility managementhandover control parametersmobility robustness optimization |
| spellingShingle | Aziz Ur Rehman Mardeni Bin Roslee Tiang Jun Jiat A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions Applied Sciences handover self-optimization heterogeneous networks mobility management handover control parameters mobility robustness optimization |
| title | A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions |
| title_full | A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions |
| title_fullStr | A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions |
| title_short | A Survey of Handover Management in Mobile HetNets: Current Challenges and Future Directions |
| title_sort | survey of handover management in mobile hetnets current challenges and future directions |
| topic | handover self-optimization heterogeneous networks mobility management handover control parameters mobility robustness optimization |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/5/3367 |
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