Road Gateways for femtocell clusters to enable communication and handover in dead zones

Benita, J.; Rajam, V. Mary Anita

doi:10.1007/s10586-017-0799-2

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“…Dead zones are areas where even basic voice communication via mobile device is not possible with a macrocell (Benita & Rajam, 2017). A macrocell is a cellular base station that sends and receives radio signals through large towers and antennas.…”

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What happens next? The ever-dreaded “knock” and mobile access instability for vehicle residents

Montague

2023

Mobile Media & Communication

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This high-exposure study explores information-seeking via mobile phone usage among a specific unstably housed population. There exists a population referred to as “vehicle residents” who are people earning wages, who have chosen to move into their vehicles as a survival strategy during a time when housing expenses account for more than half of lower-income Americans’ monthly income, and whose situation varies from traditional homelessness in that they sustain some stability in maintaining ownership of the vehicle in which they are residing. Building on previous studies of homeless people and their mobile phone usage, while using mobilism as the frame, this study investigates the ways that access instability, an underexamined facet of digital inequality, impacts vehicle residents’ ability to search for information via their mobile phones to support their daily lives. This study is based on two rounds of semi-structured interviews with the same participants, complemented by a virtual guided tour of participant's vehicles. Among the key findings is that mobility creates and resolves access instability for vehicle residents, introducing the concept of mobile access instability. Overall, understanding the unique features and information needs of this particular group results in a more thorough comprehension of the contemporary housing crisis, which is necessary to improve policy by developing mitigation strategies and resolutions.

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What happens next? The ever-dreaded “knock” and mobile access instability for vehicle residents

Montague

2023

Mobile Media & Communication

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The Simulation-Based Smart Management Approach for Cellular Network Operation and Planning

Suleykin¹,

Panfilov²

2017

DAAAM Proceedings

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The number of mobile users in the world has been steadily increasing for last decades and is anticipated to continue its growth by the end to 2019 up to more than 5 billion users. This process brings new challenges to the telecom companies over the globe and to the cellular network infrastructures. The problem (dead) zones and dropped calls are now among the most critical issues that mobile providers tend to solve, while trying to increase the quality of service at the same time. The paper discusses modeling approaches to the cellular network's problem zones detection and analysis, on the basis of complaints, subscribers and base stations data aggregation and analysis. We describe algorithms to be used in building Heat Map geo-spatial visualizations of cellular network data, which show the distribution of problem zones within the network with their corresponding weights assigned according to the amount of complaints and population density in the area. This information is used in prioritization of distributed problem zones for the cellular network development and decision support on new base station deployment. It means that simulation-based approaches to problem zone detection and fixation in cellular network can help to increase the customer satisfaction of connection level and quality of mobile service. In addition, the paper presents the evaluation of economic effect of solving the problem zone issue that follows the subscriber traffic increase.

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Road Gateways for femtocell clusters to enable communication and handover in dead zones

Cited by 2 publications

References 29 publications

What happens next? The ever-dreaded “knock” and mobile access instability for vehicle residents

What happens next? The ever-dreaded “knock” and mobile access instability for vehicle residents

The Simulation-Based Smart Management Approach for Cellular Network Operation and Planning

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