Standardization of femtocells in 3GPP

  • Authors:
  • Douglas N. Knisely;Takahito Yoshizawa;Frank Favichia

  • Affiliations:
  • Airvana, Inc.;Thomson Telecom;Alcatel-Lucent

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Cellular system operators have identified the critical need for standardization of femtocell devices and their associated interfaces into the operators' core networks as a critical requirement for the success of femtocell products. Driven by this demand, the UMTS/UTRAN standards community has been undertaking a large-scale and comprehensive effort to specify such standards for femtocell devices and systems that are based on the UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA family of radio access technologies. This article describes those standardization activities and provides an overview for the femtocell system architecture that has been developed within 3GPP.