Mobility Management in the Applications of 5G and Beyond: A Handover Skipping Topology Analysis

Abstract

This paper introduces handover (HO) skipping topology analysis that adjust the HO Skipping of 5G and beyond applications to improve the overall network performance and diminish negative effects. We propose a novel Poisson point process (PPP) based context-aware HO skipping approach to focus on the impact of HO metrics such as, passenger’s trajectory, different velocities, and a mean-time of a passenger within a BS to maintain a good quality of service (QoS). Our proposed scheme, context-aware HO skipping enables a dynamic HO skipping where the skipping decision is taken based on the load of the BSs along the passenger’s trajectory. The parameters have been analysed and implemented in a dynamic simulator and have been investigated for different parameter sets in a high-speed railway simulation scenario. Our simulation results in the robustness of the framework show comparable coverage probability on various high train velocities and mean-times.