Mobility management with handover rate computation in WiMAX cellular system

Future mobile communication demands high mobility of user. An effect of this movement is that mobile users change its base station (BS) at much higher rate. Hence, handover is one of the most important aspects of mobility management for any cellular mobile technology. We have developed an analytical model for finding the handover rate in a cellular network. Moreover, analysis has been done with the help of two competitive broadband wireless access technologies i-e WiMAX and 3G. Both technologies are being deployed in many countries due to its high data rate applications. Mobility users are classified into two categories and results are investigated for three types of area (urban, suburban and rural). Some of our results suggest that WiMAX is more effective for rural areas as compared to urban and suburban environment.