a review on femtocell technology with cellular network
Anjali Devi,Arkas B.D.
Published in International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Networking,Wireless and Mobile Communications
ISSN: 2320-7248 Impact Factor:1.8 Volume:2 Issue:3 Year: 22 March,2015 Pages:116-122
Abstract
Femtocells, despite their name, pose a potentially large disruption to the carefully planned cellular networks that now connect a majority of the planet’s citizens to the Internet and with each other. Femtocells – which by the end of 2010 already outnumbered traditional base stations and at the time of publication are being deployed at a rate of about five million a year – both enhance and interfere with this network in ways that are not yet well understood. In this paper will femtocells be crucial for offloading data and video from the creaking traditional network? Or will femtocells prove more trouble than they are worth, undermining decades of careful base station deployment with unpredictable interference while delivering only limited gains? Or possibly neither: are femtocells just a “flash in the pan”; an exciting but short-lived stage of network evolution that will be rendered obsolete by improved Wifi offloading, new backhaul regulations and/or pricing, or other unforeseen technological developments? This paper overviews the history of femtocells, demystifies their key aspects, and provides a preview of the next few years, which the authors believe will see a rapid acceleration towards small cell technology. This paper reports, we also position and introduce the articles that headline this special issue.
Kewords
Femtocell, Cellular network, Mobile sensing, Interference with Femtocell, Microcell.
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