HANDOVER DECISION BASED ON PROBABILISTIC PATH AND DATA CAPACITY FOR FEMTOCELL NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for deciding a handover between a macro cell and a femtocell, and more specifically to a method for deciding a handover by stochastically estimating the path of a terminal in a femtocell and by comparing obtainable data capacity depending on a handover occurrence on the estimated path, wherein the stochastic path of the terminal is estimated with a stochastic analysis with respect to all the possible paths capable of passing the femtocell, and the accuracy of the stochastic estimation increases as the number of times the terminal passes the femtocell increases; therefore, the actual path of the terminal may be similar to the stochastic path. An obtainable data transmission rate that the terminal can obtain depending on the time on the stochastic path is estimated, and the obtainable data transmission rate may be different depending on the handover occurrence.