Teletraffic modeling and analysis of flexible hierarchical cellular networks with speed-sensitive handoff strategy

Abstract

Hierarchical cellular networks with subscribers of varying mobility are considered. Microcells are used to address the high-intensity traffic of mainly slow mobility areas, and macrocells are overlaid over the microcells to cater mainly to high-mobility lower density traffic. The two tiers of microcells and macrocells provide a secondary resource for new traffic as well as handoffs for mobile subscribers of different mobility classes. Furthermore, resources in alternate layers are monitored to assign the appropriate resource types when they become available. We develop an analytical model to evaluate the performance of such systems, and quantify the gain obtained by providing overflow to alternate resources as well as the advantages in resource reassignment according to the speed classification.