Standardization of femtocells in 3GPP
IEEE Communications Magazine
Early experiences and lessons learned from femtocells
IEEE Communications Magazine
Power Control and Channel Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks with Primary Users' Cooperation
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Extended Knowledge-Based Reasoning Approach to Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Access control mechanisms for femtocells
IEEE Communications Magazine
Spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks with imperfect sensing: A discrete-time Markov model
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Cognitive femtocell networks: an overlay architecture for localized dynamic spectrum access
IEEE Wireless Communications
IEEE Wireless Communications
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
Open vs. closed access femtocells in the uplink
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
Cognitive radio: brain-empowered wireless communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
HC-MAC: A Hardware-Constrained Cognitive MAC for Efficient Spectrum Management
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Femtocell networks are widely deployed to extend cellular network coverage into indoor environments such as large office spaces and homes. Cognitive radio functionality can be implemented in femtocell networks based on an overlay mechanism under the assumption of a hierarchical access scenario. This study introduces a novel femtocell network architecture, that is characterized by a completely autonomous femtocell bandwidth access and a distributed media access control protocol for supporting data and real-time traffic. The detailed description of the architecture and media access protocol is presented. Furthermore, in-depth theoretical analysis is performed on the proposed media access protocol using discrete-time Markov chain modeling to validate the effectiveness of the proposed protocol and architecture.