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Resource Allocation to Support QoE of Handovers in Overlaid Macro-Femto Networks

  • Lee, Moon-Ho (Dept. of Multimedia Science, Chungwoon University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Chan (School of Computer Information and Communication Engineering, Kunsan National University)
  • Received : 2016.10.14
  • Accepted : 2016.12.08
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel resource allocation scheme which enables to guarantee the quality of experience (QoE) for handovers from femtocell to macrocell and vice versa, and between femtocells in the overlaid macro-femto networks. The proposed scheme guarantees QoE to a certain extent during handover by utilizing a fixed amount of radio resource reserved in advance for the dedicated use to support QoE. We take both the type of the handover and the temporal sensitiveness characteristics of user services into consideration in order to support QoE. Performance of our scheme is analyzed by simulation with respect to the outage probability and total throughput.

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