Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

Sales of ICT devices-laptops, home computers, their associated peripherals (networking,
storage and display) dominate market share and recent growth in the consumer electronics …

Peer-to-peer communication has been recently considered as a popular issue for local area
services. An innovative resource allocation scheme is proposed to improve the performance …

This comprehensive resource explores state-of-the-art advances in the successful
deployment and operation of small cell networks. A broad range of technical challenges …

Mobile data offloading is a promising approach to alleviate network congestion and
enhance quality of service (QoS) in mobile cellular networks. In this paper, we investigate …

This paper presents the analytical models of power consumption in macrocell, microcell,
picocell and femtocell based networks. Five case studies are presented in this paper where …

Compared with the macrocell systems, the femtocell systems allow users to obtain
broadband service with high data rate by using lower costs of transmit power, operation and …

In future cellular networks, tracking areas (TAs) that are defined for location management
purposes will be frequently updated to cope with changes in user trends. In this paper, an …

Femtocells (FCs) are introduced to enhance the indoor coverage and system capacity of
traditional cellular networks. However, the network performance could be significantly …

Femtocell has gained considerable attention to provide indoor ubiquitous mobile broadband
coverage at higher data rate along with excellent voice service. It is a low power, short …