Comparing coverage quality for femtocell and macrocell broadband data services

Authors:
Jay Weitzen;Theodore Grosch
Affiliations:
Airvana;Airvana
Venue:
IEEE Communications Magazine
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This article presents the results of a series of field tests to characterize femtocell coverage quality in typical residential houses with respect to high-speed data services. The study proves femtocell users can expect to observe an improvement of more than five times in average airlink data speeds relative to the existing macro-cell network. The article presents the methodology used in the tests, and offers summary results for both 1xEV-DO and HSDPA technologies. The results presented here show that the case for using femtocells for broadband data services is even stronger than for voice-based services.