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The Small Cell Forum used the International CTIA WIRELESS 2012 show in New Orleans to unveil its latest whitepaper outlining the opportunities and challenges facing public access 3G small cell deployments. The paper highlights the impact that the technology could have in urban hotspots using conservative small cell models. hotspots where small cells could quickly be carrying more users and data capacity than the local macro network.
Addressing the full variety of interference challenges: Operators need to be aware of and overcome these potential issues, including downlink and uplink interference or potential impacts from mobile connections in fast-moving vehicles. Possible mitigation measures include inter-frequency and intra-frequency handover, active hand-in and re-calibrating transmit power and scheduling. Backhaul options for public access small cells should also be considered: These vary in terms of availability, suitability, cost and latency. Unfortunately, in rural areas there tends to be the fewest backhaul options; however DSL and satellite have already been successfully employed. Meanwhile, the Forum also used the show to announce the availability of its FemtoZonal Awareness API within the GSMAs wider OneAPI programme. This means that mobile developers globally can build small cell enabled applications using the GSMAs OneAPI. These can then be tested using the Forums emulator, also unveiled at the show, which simulates a small cell environment.
The list of potential new applications is limitless. These range from simple home reminders when you walk through the door to enhanced enterprise follow-me call services and clever personalized e-commerce shopping mall apps, said Andy Germano, Chairman of the Small Cell Forums Services Working Group. The key right now is to lower the barrier to entry for developers. They need to know that they can target apps at a global market and simply build and test them without any small cell kit or knowledge of radio networks this announcement gives them those guarantees. According to its whitepaper, public uptake of these small cell applications will need to address three key challenges: 1. To encourage broad uptake of public small cell apps, the small cells will need to support subscribers from other mobile networks. 2. To retain high levels of user loyalty and satisfaction it will need to support opt-in functionality. 3. Operators need to consider alternative billing arrangements such as support for gold subscribers, or to allow shops hosting applications to take on the data costs rather than the consumer
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