Context-aware Handoff Selection Algorithm in Femtocell Networks

Femtocells are attracting a fast increasing interest nowadays, as a promising solution to improve indoor coverage, enhance system capacity, and lower transmit power. Technical challenges still remain, however, mainly including interference, security and mobility management, intercepting wide deployment and adoption from mobile operators and end users. This paper describes a novel handover decision policy for femtocell network, towards reducing energy consumptionwhile taking users priority in mind. The first study is about a AWGN mono-channel scenario, whereas the last section is about a more realistic multipath channel.