A macro-microcellular system with mobile user speed estimation
A. Grimaldi, S. Marano, Carlo Mastroianni, M.T. Scarpelli · 2002
Future cellular systems are expected to use differently sized and shaped cells, depending on the area to be covered (urban or rural) and the user density. This paper proposes a cellular system that uses a two-tier cellular scheme, with macrocells and microcells. Mobile users are grouped into two classes, "slow" and "fast" users: to estimate user speed, a procedure is implemented, based on the evaluation of the amount of time a mobile station resides in a microcell. A channel assignment strategy, which tries to allocate "slow" users to the low tier (microcells) and "fast" users to the high tier (macrocells), is proposed: in this way, low mobility users undergo handovers at microcell boundaries, and high mobility users undergo handovers at macrocell boundaries. A simulation study is carried out to show that the handover rate, as well as the system signaling load, are kept at an acceptable level.