Handoff Rate Analysis in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Poisson and Poisson Cluster Patterns

In multi-tier heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs), both horizontal and vertical handoffs impact the signaling overhead and quality of service in the system. However, they are difficult to analyze due to the diverse and irregularly shaped cells in HWNs. The causes of this irregularity are three-fold: (1) small-cell base stations (BSs) tend to be deployed with a high level of spatial randomness; (2) BSs are likely to aggregate around highly populated geographical regions; (3) various transmission power levels in different tiers further create diverse cell sizes and shapes. In this work we present a new stochastic geometric analysis framework on user mobility in HWNs. Each tier of BSs is modeled as either a Poisson point process (PPP) or a Poisson cluster process (PCP), to capture their spatial randomness and their nonuniform and dependent aggregation in space. Flexible user association is also taken into consideration, such that various scales of cell sizes are accommodated. We der...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: MOBIHOC
• Authors: Wei Bao, Ben Liang
• Keywords: Computer Networks, MOBIHOC 2015