Impact of Mobility on QoS in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Mikaël Touati (1, 2, 3) , Jean-Marc Kélif (1) , Marceau Coupechoux (2, 3)

1 Orange Labs [Issy les Moulineaux]
2 RMS - Réseaux, Mobilité et Services
3 INFRES - Département Informatique et Réseaux

This paper develops a model evaluating the impact of mobility in heterogeneous wireless networks by the way of analytical expressions of the spatio-temporal evolution of QoS indicators. Such formulas are obtained by introducing a multi-user averaged mobility pattern named density of users. Among the set of densities, we use a Gaussian form of this quantity, which results from a modeling method based on the maximum entropy principle. Numerical results show the temporal variations of the QoS indicators and highlight the combined effects of network heterogeneity due to the presence of macro and small cells, and traffic variations due to mobility.

Keywords: load and capacity analysis; quality of service; performance; heterogeneous networks; small cells; mobility

Domains: Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Mikaël Touati, Jean-Marc Kélif, Marceau Coupechoux. Impact of Mobility on QoS in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications, International Workshop on Small Cell and 5G Networks (ICC Workshops), Jun 2015, London, United Kingdom. pp.1-6. ⟨hal-01144143⟩