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Are Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Superior to Homogeneous Ones?

Are Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Superior to Homogeneous Ones?

  • Shelly Salim20,
  • Christian H. W. Oey20 &
  • Sangman Moh20 
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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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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea

    Shelly Salim, Christian H. W. Oey & Sangman Moh

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SeoulTech, 172 Gongreung 2-dong, Nowon-gu, 139-743, Seoul, Korea

    James J. Park

  2. School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Building J12, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

  3. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, 88 Do-An-Buk-Ro, Seo-gu, 302-729, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

  4. Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, CSE 301, 32611, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Sartaj Sahni

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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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