Abstract
In this paper, the performance of homogeneous cellular networks (HMCNs) and heterogeneous cellular networks (HTCNs) is evaluated and compared. The HTCN discussed in this paper consists of three kinds of cells: macrocells, microcells and femtocells. The macrocells are evenly deployed. The microcells are densely deployed in the offices and public areas and sparsely deployed in the universities areas. The femtocells are deployed in the residential areas. And, a user mobility pattern is defined to model real communication environment. Our simulation results show that the HTCN requires less power (in Watt/km2/Mbps) and achieves higher throughput compared to the HMCN.
Keywords
- Heterogeneous cellular network
- user mobility
- energy
- throughput
This work was supported in part by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2012-H0301-12-2008).
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Salim, S., Oey, C.H.W., Moh, S. (2012). Are Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Superior to Homogeneous Ones?. In: Park, J.J., Zomaya, A., Yeo, SS., Sahni, S. (eds) Network and Parallel Computing. NPC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7513. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35606-3_7
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