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Title: | Intersystem soft handover for converged DVB-H and UMTS networks |
Authors: | Yang, X Owens, TJ |
Keywords: | Compressed mode;Digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H);Handover;Stochastic trees;Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 57(3): 1887-1898 |
Abstract: | Digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) is the standard for broadcasting Internet Protocol (IP) data services to mobile portable devices. To provide interactive services for DVB-H, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) can be used as a terrestrial interaction channel for the unidirectional DVB-H network. The converged DVB-H and UMTS network can be used to address the congestion problems due to the limited multimedia channel accesses of the UMTS network. In the converged network, intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS is needed for an optimum radio resource allocation, which reduces network operation cost while providing the required quality of service. This paper deals with the intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS in such a converged network. The converged network structure is presented. A novel soft handover scheme is proposed and evaluated. After considering the network operation cost, the performance tradeoff between the network quality of service and the network operation cost for the intersystem soft handover in the converged network is modeled using a stochastic tree and analyzed using a numerical simulation. The results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and has the potential to be used for implementation in the real environment. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2487 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2007.909278 |
ISSN: | 0018-9545 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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