This paper studies the impact of a femto‐cell underlay deployment that shares radio
frequency resources with urban macro‐cells. Due to their random and uncoordinated …

Femto-cells consist of user-deployed Home Evolved NodeBs (HeNBs) that promise
substantial gains in system spectral efficiency, coverage, and data rates due to an enhanced …

This article provides an overview of opportunities and challenges related to joint
deployments of macro and femtocells. It provides insights on possible deployment …

This paper studies the impact of a femto-cell underlay deployment that shares radio
frequency resources with urban macro-cells. Femto-cells promise substantial gains in …

Low-power home base stations, also known as femtocells, are one of the strong candidates
for high data rate provisioning in indoor environments. Unfortunately, the benefits are not …

To tackle the 1000× mobile data challenge, the research towards the 5th generation of
mobile cellular networks is currently ongoing. One clear enabler toward substantially …

Femtocells can enable in-home cell phone coverage and provide access to high speed
wireless broadband services where the usual macrocell system can only provide degraded …

Femtocells are low-cost, low-power cellular base stations that are designed to provide high
quality cellular service in residential or enterprise environments and operate in licensed …

Deployment of femtocells represents a promising solution to increase cost-capacity benefits
for network operators and provide higher data rates to end-users. Femtocells are conceived …

Femtocell has been considered by the wireless industry as a promising solution not only to
improve indoor coverage, but also to unload traffic from overburdened macrocell networks …