A DETAILED STUDY ON FEMTOCELL

SUBMITTED BY :
SPANDAN MUKHOPADHYAY

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MD. GHOLAM SARWER

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SATYAM SINHA

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VIKRAM KUMAR

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SUMIT PAREEK

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DHIRAJ KUMAR SARRAF

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Introduction

A femtocell is a small cellular base station designed for use in residential or small business
environments

It connects to the service providers network via broadband (such as DSL or cable) and
typically supports 2 to 5 mobile phones in a residential setting

A femtocell allows service providers to extend service coverage inside of your home especially where access would otherwise be limited or unavailable - without the need for
expensive cellular towers

It also decreases backhaul costs since it routes your mobile phone traffic through the IP
network

A femtocell is sometimes referred to as a home base station, access point base station,
3G access point, small cellular base station and personal 2G-3G base station

History On Femtocell

The first interest in femtocells started around 2002 when a group of engineers at Motorola
were investigating possible new applications and methodologies that could be used with
mobile communications.

A couple of years later in 2004, the idea was beginning to gain some momentum and a
variety of companies were looking into the idea.

With the idea gaining momentum, and many more companies investigating femto cell
technology, the Femto Forum was set up in July 2007. Its aim was to promote the widescale adoption of femtocells. With mounting industry pressure to be able to deploy femto
cell technology, the Femto Forum also played a coordinating role in ensuring that the
standards were agreed and released as fast as possible.

How does femtocell works ?

Why Femtocell ?

Technical motivation
Reduced separation distance between transmitter and receiver
Interference is isolated by building structure
Limited number of users

Business motivation
Half of voice calls and a majority of data traffic originate indoor
Operators expand network capacity and coverage without much investments on
infrastructure.
Subscribers get better radio service at low price

Definition & Differentiation Of Femtocell

Site Rental
Installation
Electricity Bill
Radio Planning
Backhaul
Connection
Macrocell
Interaction
Transmission
Power
Access Rights
Handover
Photo

Femtocell
customer
customer
customer
no (local)
via customer

Picocell
operator
operator
operator
yes (prior & global)
dedicated

Wif
customer
customer
customer
no
via customer

not (yet)

yes

not applicable

< 23dBm

23-30dBm

20dBm

mainly closed
possible

public
yes

closed
vertical

Features of Femtocell

Operates in the licensed spectrum

Uses fixed broadband connection for backhaul

It is managed by the NAP

The backhaul service provider may be different from NAP/NSP

Principally intended for home and SOHO

Lower cost than PicoBS

Smaller coverage (low power) than PicoBS

Smaller number of subscriber (ten or less) than PicoBS

Higher density

Users Benefits
-

Reduced in home call charges.

Improved indoor coverage (Base station in your bedroom).

Continued use of current handset.

Reduced battery drain.

Fast/Higher performance 3G services.

Operators benefits
-

Improves coverage.

Reduces backhaul traffic.

Provides capacity enhancements.

Reduces churn.

Easy Radio Coverage for rural areas.

Where there is ADSL you can have mobility.

Stimulates 3G usage.

Addresses the fixed mobile convergence market with a highly attractive and efficient
solution.

Advantages Of Femtocell
1.

Low Device Cost:

efficient, low-cost power amplifiers, highly sensitive receivers, flexible channel bandwidth, reliable RF filters; low
cost and low power implementation; etc.

2.

System Interference Management:

minimize interference to macro (and vice versa); minimize interference to adjacent femtos; coping with unplanned
rollouts; coverage estimation, interference cancellation; etc.

3.

Femtocell Capacity Maximization:

link and access management (handover, admission control, resource management, load balancing and flow control);
dynamic bandwidth allocation and sharing; etc.

4.

Backhaul Issues:
wired or wireless backhaul, reducing signaling load, QoS provisioning and traffic priorization, joint access and
backhaul design; etc.

5.

Viable System Architecture:

control & data planes, access control, authentication, local breakout, efficient forwarding, seamless mobility, zeroconfig, etc.

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Conclusion

Femtocell extends the high-data rate service coverage of UMTS to indoor environment
Higher spectral efficiency due to short range and well isolation

A range of case studies verify CSG femtocell operation

Interference locally distributed

With massive deployment, a solution for ubiquitous mobile broadband access

Flexible spectrum scheme is efficient to reduce uplink outage rate

Mobile teletrauma use case:

With a certain level of femtocell penetration ratio, the service can be delivered with sufficient low
outage rate
At least an order of magnitude reduction in service outage rates when femtocells are utilized,
compared with macrocell only case

Downlink direction study is also interesting and beneficial to complete the use case study.
In the long term, the research direction is LTE femtocell.

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