PROYECTO DOCENTE E - RiuNet

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ces must be available wherever it goes to. Although this topic has drawn the
attention of the research community for several years it is still alive since in
order to meet the growing capacity demand there is a trend to reduce the
cell size. Cell size reduction increases the handover frequency and also the
number of handovers that a session must undergo and these, along with the
higher diversity of services in next generation networks, have a negative im-
pact on the efficiency of resource utilization. Hence, the interest of devising
efficient RRM mechanisms grows accordingly.
This thesis aims at developing analytical models for the study and perfor-
mance evaluation of RRM in mobile cellular networks. In a somewhat more
specific manner this work pursues to contribute to the field by developing
models, methods and algorithms to: study a family of algorithms that give
priority to handover requests, analyze certain aspects related to the termi-
nal sojourn in the handover area and its repercussions on the evaluation and
design of RRM and study the AC from an optimization perspective.