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An Adaptive Handoff Method for Dynamic Traffic Distribution in Next-Generation Packet-based Mobile Systems

차세대 패킷 기반 이동 통신 시스템에서 트래픽 분산을 위한 적응적 핸드오프 기법

  • 김남기 (삼성전자 정보통신총괄 통신연구소) ;
  • 최혜은 (한국과학기술연구원 전자전산학과) ;
  • 윤현수 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

In the packet data network systems beyond 3G, the service quality of current users is affected by traffic load due to the packet burstiness. There also exists a hot cell problem, a well-known problem of cellular systems, caused by traffic centraliBation. Hot cell problem is one of the major reasons of degrading system performance because hot cell increases the call drop rate without fully utilization of system resource. Therefore, it is very important to distribute the traffic on the several neighboring cells so that system uses its resource effectively and maintains the quality of service. In this paper, we propose the adaptive handoff algorithms for distributing traffic in the packet data network systems. In addition, we propose a new load estimation method with MAC state diagram suitable for packet data network systems. Through the simulation results, we could find that proposed algorithm is able to improve efficiency of system resource and to assure the service quality of users through traffic distribution.

3 세대 이상의 차세대 패킷 기반 이동 통신 시스템은 패킷 네트워크의 특성 때문에 사용자가 받는 서비스의 질이 셀(Cell)의 트랙픽 부하량에 의해 직접적인 영향을 받는 구조로 되어 있다. 또 이동통신 시스템에서 트래픽 집중화 현상은 시스템 자원을 충분히 활용하지 못하면서 호(Call) 탈락률을 높여 전체 시스템 성능이 떨어지는 핫셀(Hot cell) 문제를 야기한다. 그러므로 패킷 네트워크를 기반으로 하는 이동 통신 시스템에서 자원을 효율적으로 사용하기 위해 트래픽을 분산시키는 것은 매우 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 패킷 기반의 이동 통신 시스템에서 핸드오프 시 주변 셀의 부하 정보를 고려해 몰려있는 트래픽을 주위로 분산시키는 적응적 핸드오프 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또, 패킷 네트워크에서 트래픽 부하를 측정하는 방법으로 MAC 상태도에서 트래픽 전송 및 트래픽 대기 상태에 있는 사용자의 수를 이용하는 기법도 제안한다. 그리고 모의 실험 결과를 통하여 제안하는 핸드오프 기법이 트래픽을 분산시켜 시스템 전체 측면에서의 자원을 효율성을 높이고, 사용자의 서비스 질을 보장함을 보인다.

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