Efficiency of Handover Prediction Based on Handover History

The prediction of the handover in mobile wireless networks is an easy way of optimal disposing with radio resources and efficient increase of quality of services. The prediction can be based on the several approaches. This paper is focused on the monitoring of the history of serving and target base stations while the handover is executed. The information about previous handovers of all users are stored in base stations. Then the prediction is performed based on the frequency of previous handovers between pairs of base stations. The paper investigates an efficiency of target base station prediction for several scenarios. Further, an impact of a number of neighbor stations on the ratio of successfully predicted target base stations is analyzed.