I have been studying about how users can be connected to a base station or access point when multiple options are available in heterogeneous environment. I was planning to develop an energy efficient solution while satisfying certain QoS metric along with load balancing in the LTE-A and beyond context.
In the literature, I found two terms which is confusing. Some literature used 'cell selection' while some other used 'user association'. Is there any fundamental difference between these two terms or its just two different term used for the same thing?
Any suggestions?
user association refers to the problem of assigning mobile users to base station cells. Cell Selection procedure allows the UE to camp on to a cell. There are three types of Cell selection in LTE: So for me also both the terms probably mean the same
Many thanks Aamir. Would it be possible to suggest any paper that describes those three types of cell selection?