Analysis of Handover based on the use of Femtocells in LTE Networks

The volume of data traffic in mobile networks is growing exponentially. The explosion of mobile devices and applications in recent years has led to an overload of the network infrastructure responsible for disposing of this traffic thus affecting the performance of the network as the user experience. One of the key elements in the networks (LTE) Long Term Evolution is the possibility of deploying multiple femtocells for the improvement of coverage and data rate. However arbitrary overlapping coverage of these cells makes the handover mechanism complex and challenging. Thus this book proposes a methodology to study the impact of handover in LTE networks with femtocells. From a discrete simulation approach the effects of the deployment of femtocells were evaluated. This study aimed to measure the impact and correlation of the use of femtocell parameters of QoS (Quality of Service) and performance indicators handover.