A fast scanning technique for mobility management by optimized angular segmentation method

Abstract

In wireless & mobile communication the mobility management technique is an important issue of research. To fulfill the criteria of the all time connectivity, the mobile station (MS) should be connected with a base station (BS) during its operating mode, irrespective of its mobility. When a MS travels within the cell, no special technique is required to maintain its connectivity. But when a MS travels out of the coverage area of its current BS and tries to associate with another BS, a delay occurs during the handover of connection which leads to a failure of connection. Throughout the last few years plenty of researches had been done to reduce this handover delay by reducing the scanning delay as the scanning process causes ninety percent of the total handover delay. In this paper, we propose a new scanning technique where the hexagonal cell is divided in three angular segments and for each segment two neighbour BSs are reserved for handover. MS will measure its distance from the reserved BSs at fixed time intervals and the handover of connection will be performed to the nearest BS when the handover will be required. Our simulation results show the effectiveness of our proposed scheme in practical field.