Femtocells (ePub)

This book provides an in-depth guide to femtocell
technologies



In this book, the authors provide a comprehensive and organized
explanation of the femtocell concepts, architecture, air interface
technologies, and challenging issues arising from the deployment of
femtocells, such as interference, mobility management and
self-organization. The book details a system level simulation based
methodology addressing the key concerns of femtocell deployment
such as interference between femto and macrocells, and the
performance of both femto and macrocell layers. In addition, key
research topics in interference modeling and mitigation, mobility
management and Self-Organizing Network (SON) are highlighted. The
authors also introduce HNB/HeNB standardization in 3GPP..
Furthermore, access methods (closed, open and hybrid),
applications, timing synchronization, health issues, business
models and security are discussed. The authors also provide a
comparison between femtocells and other indoor coverage techniques
such as picocells, repeaters, distributed antenna systems and radio
over fiber. Lastly, both CDMA and OFDMA based femtocells are
covered.

Key Features:

* Provides a comprehensive reference on femtocells and related
topics

* Offers the latest research results on femtocells based on
simulation and measurements

* Gives an overview of indoor coverage techniques such as
picocells, repeaters, distributed antenna systems, radio over fiber
and femtocells

* Includes chapters on femtocell access network architecture, air
interface technologies (GSM, UMTS, HSPA, WiMAX and LTE), femtocell
simulation, interference analysis and mitigation in femto/macrocell
networks, mobility management in femto/macrocell networks,
femtocell self-organization and other key challenges such as timing
synchronization and security faced by femtocell deployment

* Points to over 240 references from 3GPP, The Femto Forum,
journals and conference proceedings

This book will be an invaluable guide for RF engineers from
operators, R&D engineers from femtocells hardware
manufacturers, employees from regulatory bodies, radio network
planners, academics and researchers from universities and research
organizations. Students undertaking wireless communications courses
will also find this book insightful.