A femtocell increases efficiency and coverage of a macrocellular network operating in a co-
channel manner within the macrocell spectrum by selecting subcarriers for its mobile station …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and a communication system including femtocells within a
macrocell efficiently manage interference between the different femtocells, and between …

A method is provided of radio communication in a radio communications network comprising
a macrocell base station and a femtocell base station. The method comprises the femtocell …

A femtocell network uses idle resource blocks of a data frame to reduce interference by
spreading the resource blocks of the users over the available spectrum. Spreading may be …

In a system including one or more femtocells within a service area of a macrocell, a method
includes:(a) receiving from a base station of each femtocell information regarding available …

Frequencies are allocated in a wireless network, wherein the network includes a set of
macrocells and a set of femtocells, and wherein each macrocell includes a base station (BS) …

A method of downlink synchronization for a femto base station in a cellular orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided. The femto base station first …

The present invention provides a method for implementation in mobile unit that is configured
to communicate with a wireless communication system that includes macrocells and …

A femtocell base station collects the terminal distribution within the cell and selects terminals
to represent the cell-center and the cell-edge from among the terminals within the cell. The …

BACKGROUND Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) tele communication
systems provide wireless communication to mobile devices over a radio access network …