Mobility management for femtocells in LTE-advanced: Key aspects and survey of handover decision algorithms

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 64-91

  Xenakis, Dionysis ^a   Passas, Nikos ^a   Merakos, Lazaros ^a   Verikoukis, Christos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Intelligent Energy Area Telecommunications Technological   (Spain)

Author keywords

comparative summary; Femtocells; handover decision algorithm; LTE Advanced; mobility management; survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894680830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2013.060313.00152     Document Type: Article

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