Two-tier networks, comprising a conventional cellular network overlaid with shorter range
hotspots (eg femtocells, distributed antennas, or wired relays), offer an economically viable …

The deployment of femtocells in a macrocell network is an economical and effective way to
increase network capacity and coverage. Nevertheless, such deployment is challenging due …

Small cells such as femtocells overlaying the macrocells can enhance the coverage and
capacity of cellular wireless networks and increase the spectrum efficiency by reusing the …

Two-tier femtocell networks-comprising a conventional cellular network plus embedded
femtocell hotspots-offer an economically viable solution to achieving high cellular user …

Femtocells are being considered a promising technique to improve the capacity and
coverage for indoor wireless users. However, the cross-tier interference in the spectrum …

Providing an extensive overview of the radio resource management problem in femtocell
networks, this invaluable book considers both code division multiple access femtocells and …

Two-tier femtocell networks-comprising a conventional macrocellular network plus
embedded femtocell hotspots-offer an economically viable solution to achieving high …

The mitigation of intercell interference is an importance issue for current and next-generation
wireless cellular networks where frequencies are aggressively reused and hierarchical …

This paper investigates price-based resource allocation strategies for two-tier femtocell
networks, in which a central macrocell is underlaid with distributed femtocells, all operating …

In this paper, we address the spectrum allocation problem in cellular networks under the
coordinated dynamic spectrum access (CDSA) model. In this model, a centralized spectrum …