de la Roche, Guillame; Valcarce, Alvaro; López-Pérez, David; Zhang, Jie(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-01)
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Femtocells are a solution that helps to reduce the capital and operational expenditure of a mobile network while enhancing system coverage and capacity. However, the avoidance of interference is still an issue that ...
Benaatou, Wafa; Latif, Adnane; Pla, Vicent(Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, 2019)
[EN] One of the most challenging tasks in
communication networks is to maintain seamless mobility and
service continuity during a vertical handover. This paper
provides the case of handover decision making between
femtocell ...
López-Pérez, David; Güvenç, Ismail; de la Roche, Guillame; Kountouris, Marios; Quek, Tony Q. S.; Zhang, Jie(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011-06)
[EN] 3GPP LTE-Advanced has recently been investigating heterogeneous network (HetNet) deployments as a cost effective way to deal with the unrelenting traffic demand. HetNets consist of a mix of macrocells, remote radio ...
Gomar Llario, Juan(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-06-30)
The deployment of small cells is one of the solutions used by the operators in
order to improve their coverage and the quality of service (QoS) offered in urban
scenarios. However, an increase in the amount of available ...
Guijarro Coloma, Luis Alejandro; Pla, Vicent; Vidal Catalá, José Ramón; Martínez Bauset, Jorge(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-12)
This paper analyzes the effect of the entry of a femtocell operator into a mobile communications market where a macrocell operator exists. The analysis is conducted using a game-theory-based model, specifically a threelevel ...
López-Pérez, David; Valcarce, Alvaro; de la Roche, Guillame; Zhang, Jie(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009-09)
[EN] OFDMA femtocells have been pointed Out by the industry as a good solution not only to overcome the indoor coverage problem but also to deal with the growth of traffic within macrocells. However, the deployment of a ...
López-Pérez, David; Chu, Xiaoli; Vasilakos, Athanasios V.; Claussen, Holger(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2014-02)
[EN] With the introduction of femtocells, cellular networks are moving from the conventional centralized network architecture to a distributed one, where each network cell should make its own radio resource allocation ...