Interference mitigation using uplink power control for two-tier femtocell networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Adaptive coverage adjustment for femtocell management in a residential scenario
APNOMS'09 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific network operations and management conference on Management enabling the future internet for changing business and new computing services
Femtocell coverage optimization using switched multi-element antennas
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
On femto deployment architectures and macrocell offloading benefits in joint macro-femto deployments
IEEE Communications Magazine
Access control mechanisms for femtocells
IEEE Communications Magazine
DANCE: a game-theoretical femtocell channel exchange mechanism
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on femtocell networks
Robust transmission and interference management for femtocells with unreliable network access
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on cooperative communications in MIMO cellular networks
Self-optimized coverage coordination in femtocell networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Interference mitigation by practical transmit beamforming methods in closed femtocells
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on femtocell networks
Collaborative and Cognitive Network Platforms: Vision and Research Challenges
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Femtocell coverage optimisation using statistical verification
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the 10th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part I
Municipal support of wireless access network rollout: A game theoretic approach
Telecommunications Policy
Business case evaluations for LTE network offloading with cognitive femtocells
Telecommunications Policy
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
Power Allocation Schemes in OFDM-Based Femtocell Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
UMTS Multi-Service Uplink Capacity and Interference Statistics of Femtocells
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
A dynamic programming approximation for downlink channel allocation in cognitive femtocell networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Realistic Long Term Evolution Performance for Massive HeNB Residential Deployments
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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The femtocell concept aims to combine fixed-line broadband access with cellular telephony using the deployment of ultra-low-cost, low-power third generation (3G) base stations in the subscribers' homes or premises. It enables operators to address new markets and introduce new high-speed services and disruptive pricing strategies to capture wireline voice minutes and to grow revenues. One of the main design challenges of the femtocell is that the hierarchical architecture and manual cell planning processes used in macrocell networks do not scale to support millions of femtocells. In this paper, a user-deployed femtocell solution based on the base station router (BSR) flat Internet Protocol (IP) cellular architecture is presented that addresses these problems, and several aspects of the proposed solution are discussed. The overall concept and key requirements are presented in detail. The auto-configuration and self-optimization process from purchase by the end user to the integration into an existing macrocellular network is described. Then the theoretical performance of a co-channel femtocell deployment is analyzed and its impact on the macrocell underlay is assessed. Finally, a financial analysis of a femtocellular home base station deployment in a macrocellular network is presented. It is shown that in urban areas, the deployment of publicly accessible home base stations with slightly increased coverage can significantly reduce the operator's annual network costs (up to 70 percent in the investigated scenario) compared to a pure macrocellular network. © 2008 Alcatel-Lucent.