• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1596-1612
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• 2011

Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission / reception is being studied in Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) for future evolution of the $3^{rd}$ Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE. Support of soft handover is essential for improving the performance of cell edge users. CoMP provides a natural framework for enabling soft handover in the LTE system. This paper evaluates the soft handover gain in LTE-A downlink. Mathematical analysis of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) gain and the handover margins for soft handover and hard handover are derived. CoMP system model is developed and an inter-cell and intra-cell interference model is derived, taking into account the pathloss, shadowing, cell loading, and traffic activity. Reference signal received power (RSRP) is used to define the triggers and the measurements for soft handover. Our results indicate that parameter choices such as handover margin and the CoMP set size impact CoMP performance gain.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.4015-4033
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• 2015

The future mobile networks consist of hyper-dense heterogeneous and small cell networks of same or different radio access technologies (RAT). Integrating mobile networks of different RATs to provide seamless and smooth mobility service will be the target of future mobile converged network. Generally, handover from high-speed networks to low-speed networks faces many challenges from application perspective, such as abrupt bandwidth variation, packet loss, round trip time variation, connection disruption, and transmission blackout. Existing inter-RAT handover solutions cannot solve all the problems at the same time. Based on the high-layer convergence sublayer design, a new receiver-aided soft inter-RAT handover is proposed. This soft handover scheme takes advantage of multihoming ability of multi-mode mobile station (MS) to smooth handover procedure. In addition, handover procedure is seamless and applicable to frequent handover scenarios. The simulation results conducted in UMTS-WiMAX converged network scenario show that: in case of TCP traffics for handover from WiMAX to UMTS, not only handover latency and packet loss are eliminated completely, but also abrupt bandwidth/wireless RTT variation is smoothed. These delightful features make this soft handover scheme be a reasonable candidate of mobility management for future mobile converged networks.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3A
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• pp.266-275
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• 2004

Recently, wireless networks require an efficient handover scheme due to increase of mobile devices. But Bluetooth has several problems to support the efficient handover, which are the additional increase of signaling traffic and long time of the initial setup processes of inquiry and paging processes. This paper suggests an efficient Soft Handover method for Bluetooth (eSoHoB), which reduces the eplased time of the inquiry and paging process and supports a soft handover using the anticipation method. This paper implements the eSoHoB using two Bluetooth hardware modules and a testbed to be able to receive streaming data while a Bluetooth terminal is moving. This paper measures handover delays and the operation of the soft handover to verify the proposed mhthod.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.293-296
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• 2001

In this paper, we investigate two soft handover algorithms used in the different mobile communication system. These different systems are IS-95 system and 3GPP system. The performances of two different soft handover are compared under similar conditions in terms of propagation, environment and mobility behavior. For performance comparison of soft handover, we model cell environment, radio channel and mobility. With these models the computer simulation are performed and the result of computer simulation are reported.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12A
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• pp.1200-1208
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• 2008

In TD-SCDMA systems based on TDD, when mobiles move to cell from cell, Baton Handover was used to maintain an ongoing call. But baton handover has a great demand for the equipment and system. Then both hard handover and baton handover are used alternativly in real systems. But ratio of handover success in real system is 95% which is too low to be used in systems. This paper proposes to employ Soft Handover in TD-SCDMA systems which has performed in WCDMA systems. Also we carry out the simulation, which get result of the BER performance between baton handover method and proposed handover method. The proposed method is forward to be better performance than those of the baton and hard handover.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5B
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• pp.268-274
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• 2008

With the advances in wireless communication technologies, mobile users require to get seamless services anywhere and anytime. To relize these demands, network interworking and vertical handover are necessary between heterogeneous wireless access technologies with multi-interface mobile station. A lot of organizations are doing research on the network integration schemes based on loosely and tightly integrated architectures, and research on vertical handover schemes mainly based on Mobile IP in loosely integrated environments. But actually, the tightly integrated scheme can support more faster vertical handover because heterogeneous access networks are combined tightly. However, vertical handover schemes in tightly integrated environments are conceptually proposed without any detail signaling procedures. Therefore, this paper defines a tightly integrated architecture between UMTS and WLAN, and proposes a soft vertical handover signaling procedure. The proposed soft vertical handover scheme is evaluated by the OPNET simulator, and we confirm the proposed scheme can support seamless services.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1153-1164
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• 2007

One of the most challenging technical issues in mobile communication for multimedia is Quality of Service (QoS) management of handover calls. This paper proposes a 2-level handover control system to copy with this problem. A 2-level handover control system consists of resource reservation and call admission control modules. The resource reservation module divides the network resource into Hard and Soft reserved resource. The Hard reserved resource is only for the handover calls while the Soft reserved resource is for both the handovers and the new calls. And also, the resource reservation module classifies handovers into primary and secondary handovers based on often they occur. The call admission control module deals with the primary and secondary handover calls in different ways. The new calls can use Soft reserved resource only if there is sufficient amount available in the Hard reserved resource. Proposed system is evaluated using an M/M/c/c queueing model. It is shown that proposed system allows more efficient utilization of network resource without degrading QoS comparing with the legacy handover control systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.217-219
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• 2001

WLAN은 다양한 정보와 자원을 공유할 수 있게 하는 LAN의 장점과, 제약 없는 연결성 제공이라는 편리성을 동시에 제공하고, 신뢰성 있는 data전송뿐만 아니라 유연성과 설치의 용이성을 장점으로 갖고 있다. 그러나 WLAN 이용하여 여러 어플리케이션을 사용할 때 제기되는 문제로 WLAN은 셀룰라 폰의 soft handover와 같은 mobility가 완전하게 지원되지 않으므로 WLAN 환경에서 VoIP 서비스 같은 실시간 서비스에 제약이 있다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 WLAN의 제약을 극복하기 위해 WLAN환경에서 이동단말의 이동성을 지원하기 위한 handover 방안을 제시하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.523-526
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• 2003

This letter presents an approximation of the outage probability of the pilot channel that can be used for CDMA cell planning. The approximation can determine system parameters for soft handover in IS-95-based cellular CDMA downlink design. Computer simulations show that our analytical results agree with empirical results.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.160-164
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• 2004

본 논문은 CDMA 통신망과 WLAN 통신망 사이에서 이동단말기에 적용할 수 있는 MCHO 방법에 의한 핸드오버 기술을 구현한다. MCHO에 의한 핸드오버는 단말기에서 하드 핸드오버와 소프트 핸드오버 모두를 선택적으로 적용할 수 있다. 구현된 각각의 핸드오버에 환경에서 통신 채널을 유지하고, 전송상태를 유지하기 위한 핸드오버의 절차와 그에 따른 전송상태를 비교한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 핸드오버 기술은 원격 데이터 관측, 실시간 데이터 관측, 연속 데이터관측 등의 응용과 관련 연구에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.