Assessment of handover delay in mobile communication. (Case study: Small to medium cities)

Abstract

Handover management plays a crucial role nowadays in wireless telecommunication networks. Mobile Equipment (ME) keep moving from one point of attachment to another point of attachment within a homogeneous handover, this process may cause call drops, link failure and signal loss. MATLAB is used to analyse the signal strength across small to medium cities using the path-loss model. The comparison among signal strength data in different places with the consideration of base station Height as a variable is performed. The contribution of the research is to demonstrate the most useful mechanism that should be implemented in small and medium cities that are being developed to reduce delays in handover across different distances. In this research, the expected result from MATLAB simulation is to show how the handover is performed with the signal strength variation by the path loss and base station height.