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Dynamic Group PCI Assignment Scheme

Authors:
Xu Zhang
DiBin Zhou
Zhu Xiao
Enjie Liu
Jie Zhang
Andres Alayon Glasunov

Keywords: PCI, CGI, LTE femtocell, Graph Colouring, PCI release

Abstract:
The Physical Cell Identity (PCI) is used to identify femtocell in LTE femtocell as the physical layer identity. Due to the fact that a) the PCIs are normally allocated without planning; and b) the limitation of the number of PCI, the cross-tier PCI confusion problem has arisen. The current solution in 3GPP Release 9 is to use Cell Global Identity (CGI) associated with PCI to solve this problem of confusion. However, using CGI has many serious drawbacks. Especially CGI might cause the inbound-handover is failure. In order to mitigate the CGI problem, this research proposes a dynamic PCI assignment scheme of DG-PCI in the macrocell and femtocell environment. The proposed scheme is tested by using system-level simulation. The simulations showed that the approach offers an optimal PCI distribution between macrocell and femtocell. The test showed that the CGI problem can be solved, and hence increase the successful rate of inbound-handover.

Pages: 101 to 106

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: June 19, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4219

ISBN: 978-1-61208-140-3

Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Dates: from June 19, 2011 to June 24, 2011