Femtocells are envisioned to be deployed in indoor environments in order to improve both
radio coverage and system capacity. This paper focuses on the self-organization of …

3GPP/LTE femtocell dense deployment scenarios set new challenges in terms of
interference and Radio Resource Management (RRM). Traditional policies are mainly …

Recently, femtocell technology has gained significant interest in the wireless communication
community, as a potential solution for satisfying the rapid increase in demand for wireless …

The newly released LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) is currently being introduced as a further step to
LTE and as the real 4G cellular standard on cellular networks evolution. Alongside with the …

With the emergence of femtocells, the complexity and heterogeneity of the mobile radio
networks have been dramatically increased, which lead to more operational tasks such as …

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 …

Due to the increasing demand for higher data rates by mobile users, the deployment of
femtocells under macro coverage has been adopted by 3GPP LTE-Advanced systems as …

Femtocells have become an attractive approach for operators to offer extended services on
their licensed UMTS/LTE spectrum. They are typically deployed indoors to improve …

With the deployment of numerous femtocells within macrocells, the rapidly expanding femto
base stations have to be self-organizing for interference management, coverage and …

Recent advancement in 4th generation (4G) heterogeneous networking has opened the
door for the deployment of femto-cells on a large scale. Deployment of femtocells in the …