A Novel Optimizing Mechanism of Load Balancing in LTE Network

DOI

10.2991/iccia.2012.167How to use a DOI?

Keywords

MLB, Load Balancing, network manager, Ping Pong Effect, Self-Optimizing

Abstract

With the rapid developing of wireless communication technology and the growing user service, the demand on the system capacity from users is growing. In the LTE network, the uneven load distribution makes that network resource is not fully utilized, which results that the capacity is limited. In this paper, a novel optimizing mechanism of network load balancing based on the network manager is proposed. The eNBs in the network will broadcast the current load status by the way of adapting a new message format with the life cycle bit when the load of the cell is changed, then the serving eNB can decide which part of users in the cell should transfer to the neighboring cells and send a request to the network manager. The network manager will calculate whether the transferred users make the neighboring cell load exceed the threshold. If not, the users can be transferred to the neighboring cell and release the serving cell’s load burdon. Otherwise, the serving cell will search other neighboring cells to transfer the users. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism will not consume more network resource and improve the network throughput significantly.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yu Luan
AU  - Bo Wang
AU  - Zhaobiao Lv
AU  - Jianquan Wang
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - A Novel Optimizing Mechanism of Load Balancing in LTE Network
BT  - Proceedings of the 2012 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Application (ICCIA 2012)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 695
EP  - 698
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccia.2012.167
DO  - 10.2991/iccia.2012.167
ID  - Luan2014/05
ER  -