Multiple criteria for hand-off in cellular mobile radio
David Munoz, Kenneth W. Cattermole · IEE Proceedings F Communications Radar and Signal Processing · 1987
A cellular hand-off treatment based on cell membership degrees is presented. The proposed method permits the systematic incorporation of a variety of different weight criteria. An example of application is given, and it is shown that the procedure leads to a low number of handoffs without excessive cell coverage overlapping. If one of the criteria is derived from traffic levels, then traffic imbalance may be reduced without recourse to channel borrowing.