Performance Evaluation of EUTRAN LTE Handover for High-Speed Vehicle

The seamless connectivity of the user equipment (UE) with an LTE base station is an important challenge which impacts the network performance. The network resource for handover procedure is controlled through different handover algorithms. These algorithms work on two aspects, that is power margin and quality of the reference signals. In this paper, we study and evaluate the performance of both algorithms on a typical experimental setup (using network simulator-3) with a different UE mobility scenario. The performance evaluation was performed under a set of key performance indicator i.e. throughput and hand over counts. In simulation results, we found that margin based algorithm offers better performance while comparing with the quality-based algorithm in terms of system throughput.