IJSRST196412 | Received : 01 May 2019 | Accepted : 20 May 2019 | May-June-2019 [ 6 (3) : 298-309 ]
© 2019 IJSRST | Volume 6 | Issue 3 | Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X
Themed Section: Science and Technology
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Insights into Frequent-Handovers and Interference Algorithms in Advanced
Heterogeneous Networks
Akshay Malhotra
1
, Garima Saini
2
1
Research Scholar, Electronics and Communication Department, NITTTR Chandigarh, India
2
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Department, NITTTR Chandigarh, India
ABSTRACT
The Next Generation Advanced Heterogeneous Networks are the trending networks for future 5G networks. In
earlier cellular networks such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE), there was dense deployment of cells and users
moving at high velocities, handovers occurred frequently. While dense deployment of small cells in advanced
Hetnets would result in unnecessary handovers which happens due to short sojourn time in target small cell,
therefore resulting in degraded experience for the user. For improving the net efficiency of the cellular
networks, small cells i.e. Femtocells are being currently deployed in Advanced network and are found to be a
better solution for bandwidth limitation and coverage problems. Though, the use of femtocell also comes with a
lot of limitations when they are deployed in a dense and highly mobile using environment. User equipment in
such environment faces various problems such as frequent and unnecessary handovers, interference between
femtocells, interference between femtocell and macrocell, power outage and security issues. There is a need of a
more efficient method to remove the existing problems and provide a more efficient method to reduce
unnecessary handovers, solve interference management issues along with focussing on power management of
the cells. In order to know about latest trends to curb the problems and outrage of new problems arising from
the same, will be reviewed further in this paper.
Keywords : Heterogeneous networks, LTE, Networks, Femto cells, Handover, Interference, BAT Algorithm.
I. INTRODUCTION
The mobile user number’s and their demands have
been increasing exponentially over the last few years.
Due to the increasing number of mobile users traffic
load has also increased which has lead to higher
bandwidth consumption, applications like
multimedia data, streaming video etc. To deal with
the increased traffic, planned network planning and
its optimization must be done. As the technologies
develop, it lead to improvement of technologies
smart devices, laptops, tablets, etc. which support
high end applications. Before, the main concern was
of Radio Frequency engineers to satisfy the need of
customer for the voice services by doing planned
frequency planning. That is why more efforts have
been put in for frequency planning and improved
radio spectrum utilization.
According to the latest research by 2021 figure of
mobile devices will reach up to 1.6 billion and there
will be a 53% increase in mobile data volume from
2016 to 2021. Mobile video would use 60% to 78% of
total data although mobile web will use 14%, mobile
audio will be using up to 5% and mobile file sharing
will consume 2% of total data. The prime parameter
in mobile network is the utilization of spectrum and
to support higher data rates along with improving the