Adding Femto Base Stations (FBSs) has become a common approach toward capacity and
coverage enhancements in the current cellular networks. Moreover, rapidly growing demand …

Femtocell is a miniature base station installed in subscriber's residence and office for
providing cellular service within the local home/office environment. Femtocells extend the …

The use of small cells is a promising way of providing the required capacity in future cellular
networks through densification. Self-organizing network (SON) techniques are required in …

Femtocells are viewed as a promising option for mobile operators to improve coverage and
provide high-data-rate services in a cost-effective manner. The idea is to overlay low-power …

In this paper, a tractable analytical framework for investigating the energy efficiency (EE) of a
2-tier heterogeneous cellular network consisting of macro and picocell base stations (BS) is …

Compared with conventional regular hexagonal cellular models, random cellular network
models resemble real cellular networks much more closely. However, most studies of …

Femtocells, despite their name, pose a potentially large disruption to the carefully planned
cellular networks that now connect a majority of the planet's citizens to the Internet and with …

Femtocells constitute an economical solution conceived for improving the indoor coverage,
which are capable of achieving a high network capacity. In order to guarantee a high Area …

Nowadays, the popularity of smart phones creates huge capacity requirements for networks
during mass events where thousands of people coexist in specific area. At such events …