FEMTOCELL TECHNOLOGY

ENG/13/016, I A D W BANDARA, EE
Dhanushka2900@gmail.com
benefit of femtocells, even for indoor environments
where a mobile signal from a macrocell base station

Abstract
The femtocell is a small cellular base station,
typically designed to be implemented in the customer
premises (home or small business), linked to the
mobile operators network via a standard consumer
broadband connection (ADSL, cable or fiber),
provided by an Internet service provider. Femtocells
use fully standard wireless protocols over the air to
communicate

with

standard

mobile

devices,

including GSM, WCDMA, LTE, Mobile WiMAX,

should be already available. Femtocells enable

mobile devices to work at the peak of their capability
offering
to network carriers the opportunity to offload a
significant amount of traffic from their network
assets to subscriber home-based cells that are
backhauled through the IP core.

CDMA.
Femtocell Internet Access via SIPTO Standard for a
Now a days people are increasingly using mobile
devices even when they are not on the move,
typically inside buildings as, for example, at home
and at the workplace. Actually, roughly one-third of
the whole cellular traffic is made at home despite
mobile networks are not typically being designed to
provide a solid home service and relative connection
tariffs are often unattractive compared with fixed line
networks. In all the cases when home coverage is
patchy, thus available only on upper floors or close to
windows, operators are experiencing a real difficulty,
using conventional solutions, in providing a good
quality of service with an adequate business case.
For this reason femtocells, low-power low-cost
userdeployed base stations, are providing a valid
alternative to increase throughput for mobile data
services. In fact, the provision of reliable radio
coverage throughout the home/office is the main

mobile operator the conveniences of adopting a

femtocellular technology are numerous, from the
ability to improve both coverage and system capacity,
especially indoors, reducing both capital expenditures
and operating expenses, to the opportunity to provide
new services to the customers. On the other hand,
also the consumers could benefit of improved
coverage, potential better quality of service and
longer battery life in the mobile terminal. In addition
more attractive tariffs (e.g. discounted calls from
home) may also be offered.
In this approach allows the mobile operators to
install a less number of macro base stations, leading
to cost savings and lower time commitments to
rollout 3G/4G services. Moreover, the usage of a
single strengthened femtocell per condominium
simplifies

the

configuration

and

interference

problems of the equipment, optimizes the roll-out

planning and contributes to fix the investment plan of
the operators. Jointly to the mentioned advantages,

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