The Effect of Accepted Handoff Signal Quality on the Queued Combined Guard Channel and Mobile Assisted Handoff Call Admission in 5G Networks

Abstract

The effect of handoff call signal strength on the performance of the combined guard channels and mobile assisted handoff with handoff queueing is studied. If a handoff call arrives and it has an acceptable signal quality, and there are not enough channels for its service, it is queued in a finite buffer. If during its dwell time in the queue, enough channels become available, it is immediately serviced, otherwise if its dwell time is completed, and no channels are available for its service it is dropped. Two customer types, narrowband (voice calls) and wideband (data, video and media) are considered. Matrix algorithmic techniques are used to solve the balance equations to calculate the different performance measures of the system. The results indicate that when the handoff calls with good signal strength have higher probability of being accepted, the blocking probability of new calls of both types increase much more than for the handoff call dropping. Average channel utilization is also increased. Increasing the size of the queue, led to further reduction in the handoff call dropping and increase in the bandwidth utilization. When both the probability of accepting a handoff call with good quality and the queue size is increased, the blocking probability of new calls is not affected while the handoff call dropping in reduced. In all cases, it is noticed that the handoff call dropping of wideband calls is less than the handoff call dropping of narrowband calls.