Femtocell

26/05/2015
Samin Amin Ramay
Tanvir Raihan
Geysung Choi
Faculty of Engineering and IT,
University of Technology Sydney
11831866@student.uts.edu.au
11535883@student.uts.edu.au
11636228@student.uts.edu.au

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Presentation Outline
What is Femtocell
How Femtocell Works
Benefits of Femtocell
Standardization of Femtocell
Deployment Model of Femtocells
Technical Challenges of Femtocell
Access Mechanisms
o Closed Access
o Open Access
o Hybrid Access
Interference Managements
Mobility Management and Handover
Comparision of Femtocells & Wi-Fi
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What is Femtocell

Figure 1. What is Femtocells

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What is Femtocell
Users and Coverage

Figure 2. Users and Coverage

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How Femtocell Works

Figure 3. Femtocell Access to the Core Mobile Network via Broadband Internet
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Benefits of Femtocell
For Network
Operators

For Subscribers

Improved Network
Reduced In Home Call
Coverage
Charges
Reduced Backhaul Cost
Improved Indoor Coverage
Increased Subscriber
Improved Broadband
Capacity
Experience
Improved Customer
Works with Existing
Retention
Handsets
Increased Revenue
Reduced Mobile Battery
Opportunities
Drain
Addresses VOIP Threats
New Converged Services
Table1. Benefits of Femtocell
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Stimulates
3G Usage
One Consolidated Bill
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Standardization of
Femtocell

Standards organizations concerned with Femtocells

3GPP UMTS, LTE related Femtocell
3GPP2: CDMA2000 related Femtocell
WiMAX Forum: WiMAX related femtocell

Figure 4. Standardization of Femtocell

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Femtocells Deployment Models

Figure 5. Femtocells Deployment Model

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Access Control
Mechanisms

Three Types Of Access Control Mechanisms

1) Closed Access
2) Open Access
3) Hybrid Access

Figure 6. Access Control Mechanisms

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Access Control
Mechanisms

Closed Access
Only Specific User can access a femtocell
Referred to as CSG (close subscriber Group)
Technical Challenged in Closed Access
1) Strong Cross layer Interference
2) Co-layer Interference
Possible Solutions
3) FAP power Control
4) Use of Sector Antenna
5) OFDMA
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Access Control
Mechanisms

Open Access
- Every user can access the Femtocell
Advantages
- Reduce Interference which is in closed access
mechanism
- Overall throughput
Technical Challenges
- Sharing Of femtocell resources with
nonsubscribers
- Increase the number of Handovers
- More Chances for Handover failure
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Access Control
Mechanisms

Hybrid access Mechanism

- Intermediate approach between closed and
open access
- Use Some resources for the Subscribers and
some for the nonsubscribers.
Technical Challenges
- Intelligent Management Needed to share
resources between the subscribers and
nonsubscribers

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Access Control
Mechanisms
Comparison b/w Closed access & Open
access

Table2. Comparison between closed access & open access

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Interference Management
Types of Interferences
Co-layer: In this case an FAP and a
neighbouring Femtocell user belong to the
same network layer.
Cross-layer: situations in which an FAP and a
macrocell user of interference belong to
different network layers.

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Co-layer Interference

Figure 7. Co-Tier Interference

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Cross-layer Interference

Figure 8. Cross-Tier Interference

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Mobility Management & Handover

Hand-in handover: from a serving MBS to a
target FAP
Hand-out handover: from a serving FAP to a
target MBS
Inter-FAP handover: from a FAP to another FAP

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Mobility Management & Handover

Figure 9. Handover procedure

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Solutions for handover

Improvement of conventional techniques
Power control approach

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Comparison of Femtocells & Wi-Fi

Figure 10. Comparison of Femtocells & Wi-Fi

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Comparison of Femtocells & Wi-Fi

Figure 11. Comparison of Femtocells & Wi-Fi

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Comparison of Femtocells & Wi-Fi

Figure 12. Comparison of Femtocells & Wi-Fi

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 QUESTIONS ?

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