In the concept of handoff performance in mobile communication, Bit Error Rate (BER) was not fully
considered, hence this dissertation focused on Mobility Management Scheme (MMS) in mobile communication
using BER as sensitive parameter as well as throughput, media access delay and call drop. Multilinks Nigeria
was used as the research test bed. A Multilink base station (mast) of height 32m with ID number
HT/SE/NE/008 located at longitude N060
27’53.2” and E0070
33’09.6 Emene Enugu (Enugu State Nigeria) with
transmission power (TX power) 35dBw and transmission frequency 881.25MHz was used. A BER
implementation model, MATLAB Simulink was developed while showing the validation results. The Gaussian
Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) modulator was used in the model to provide spectrally efficient modulation
scheme which leads to a good BER performance and self-synchronizing capability. Empirical Mode
decomposition (EMD) was used further to process the signals. The validated result showed that at signal to
noise ratio (SNR) of 5, BER of the existing model was 0.006 and the proposed model was 3 at the same BER
which resulted to a coding gain of 2dB. This showed that the proposed system performs better than the existing
one; therefore the system achieved a good reliability as a transceiver over the existing system. Also, an
empirical study on the Quality of Service (QoS) metrics for micro and macro mobility was achieved with much
improvement in micro mobility compared with macro mobility.
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