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The deployment of large number of femtocell base stations allows us to extend the coverage and efficiently utilize resources in a low cost manner. However, the small cell size of femtocell networks can result in frequent handovers to the mobile user, and consequently throughput degradation. Thus, in this paper, we propose predictive association control schemes to improve the system’s effective throughput. Our design focuses on reducing handover frequency without impacting on throughput. The proposed schemes determine handover decisions that contribute most to the network throughput and are proper for distributed implementations. The simulation results show significant gains compared with existing methods in terms of handover frequency and network throughput perspective.

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This article considers the cooperation between base station and relay stations to increase system throughput in time-slotted relaying wireless networks, such as dynamic time division multiple access systems. We focus on optimal throughput scheduling policies for the cooperative relaying at the network layer level. It is shown that the resulting policy for this cooperative protocol obtains the optimal throughput region. Random packet queueing at the relay stations may cause a packet-reordering effect, which may be an obstacle for real-time applications. We alter the design for throughput-optimal scheduling to remove this effect and guarantee a near optimal throughput region.

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