Method and system for load sharing between a plurality of cells in a radio network system
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsSalvador Pedraza, Matias Toril
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a system for load sharing between a plurality of cells in a radio network system, wherein each of said cells is serving a number of mobile devices. For handover of a mobile device from a currently serving source cell to a target cell, a priorization among cells adjacent to the source cell is carried out by calculating the power budgets between the currently serving source cell on the one hand and said adjacent cells on the other hand, and the adjacent cell having the highest priority is selected as target cell.
Claims14
A method for load sharing between a plurality of cells in a radio network system, wherein each of said cells is serving a number of mobile devices, comprising the steps of, for handover of a mobile device from a currently serving source cell to a target cell, carrying out a prioritization among cells adjacent to the source cell by calculating the power budgets between the currently serving source cell on the one hand and said adjacent cells on the other hand, and selecting the adjacent cell having the highest priority as target cell,
- wherein a handover margin parameter used in said power budget calculation is a function of both load and quality performance, and, when the currently serving source cell is congested, its operational size is reduced while keeping the overlapping area between the involved cells substantially constant.
A system for load sharing between a plurality of cells in a radio network, said system comprising:
- means for calculating the power budgets between a source cell which is currently serving a mobile device to be handed over to a target cell on the one hand and cells adjacent to said currently serving source cell on the other hand, said calculating means is adapted to use a handover margin parameter in said power budget calculation, said handover margin parameter being a function of both load and quality performance,
- means for priorization among said adjacent cells in accordance with the result calculated by the calculating means,
- means for selecting the adjacent cell having the highest priority as target cell, and
- means for reducing the operational size of the currently serving source cell in case of congestion, while keeping the overlapping area between the involved cells substantially constant.
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