| Autor: |
Ibtihal Ahmed Alablani, Mohammed Amer Arafah |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 64224-64240 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2169-3536 |
| DOI: |
10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3075324 |
| Popis: |
Fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks are a promising technology to meet the rapid growth in wireless traffic. Small cells are critical in fulfilling the requirements of 5G networks. A heterogeneous ultra-dense network (HUDN) is an enabling technology consisting of several types of small cells to enhance the performance of 5G networks effectively. A critical issue of HUDN is the cell selection method because the traditional technique for cell selection is inapplicable in such a network. This study proposes a novel adaptive cell selection (ADA-CS) scheme. It adapts to various characteristics of HUDNs and vehicle movements. It performs six phases to select the best base station with which to be associated. Simulation results show that, with low- and medium-speed vehicles, the ADA-CS scheme outperforms the traditional protocol in terms of the average number of handovers by 42.39%. In addition, it is superior to some relevant recent schemes by up to 36.53%. The adaptation feature of the proposed protocol provides additional improvements regarding the average number of handovers with high-speed vehicles. Therefore, it achieves superiority in terms of the average number of handover failures and unnecessary handovers. In addition, the ADA-CS scheme enhances the average achievable downlink data rates and spectral efficiency per vehicle by 3.98% and 2.79% compared with the traditional and the relevant recent schemes. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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