A Cost Based Handoff Hysteresis Scheme in Wireless Mobile Relay Node

In the long term evolution (LTE), Relay node architectures included in order to increase the coverage and system capacity. But designed in the LTE-A and release 12, the Relay node architectures supported mobility. An LTE system based on the network-controlled hard handoff and handoff reuses existing user equipment. In this paper, we propose an adaptive handoff hysteresis scheme with a simplified cost function considering some dominant factors for Mobile Relay such as the load difference target cells, the velocity, and the service type. The performances of the traditional handoff scheme and the proposal are analyzed and compared in details.