SHRI VAISHNAV INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, INDORE

CS-'A'

FEMTOCELL
Guided By:

Submitted By:

Miss Pooja Jain

Navin Kumar Sharma

Roll no.:0802CS143D02

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 wide-scale
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

Femtocell

Picocell

Wif

Site Rental

customer

operator

customer

Installation

customer

operator

customer

Electricity Bill

customer

operator

customer

Radio Planning

no (local)

yes (prior & global)

no

Backhaul
Connection

via customer

dedicated

via customer

Macrocell
Interaction

not (yet)

yes

not applicable

Transmission
Power

< 23dBm

23-30dBm

20dBm

Access Rights

mainly closed

public

closed

possible

yes

vertical

Handover
Photo

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.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Low Device Cost:

efficient, low-cost power amplifiers, highly sensitive receivers, flexible channel
bandwidth, reliable RF filters; low cost and low power implementation; etc.
System Interference Management:
minimize interference to macro (and vice versa); minimize interference to adjacent
femtos; coping with unplanned rollouts; coverage estimation, interference cancellation;
etc.
Femtocell Capacity Maximization:
link and access management (handover, admission control, resource management, load
balancing and flow control); dynamic bandwidth allocation and sharing; etc.
Backhaul Issues:
wired or wireless backhaul, reducing signaling load, QoS provisioning and traffic
priorization, joint access and backhaul design; etc.
Viable System Architecture:
control & data planes, access control, authentication, local breakout, efficient forwarding,
seamless mobility, zero-config, etc.

Disadvantages Of Femtocell
1.

High Price (about $300).

2.

Difficult to Install:

Cabling, root access , etc.

3.

Dependent on signal on nearest cell town.

4.

Requires broadband connection.

5.

It does not provides good connection in outdoor.

Conclusion
Femtocell extends the high-data rate service coverage of UMTS to indoor environment

A range of case studies verify CSG femtocell operation

Interference locally distributed

Flexible spectrum scheme is efficient to reduce uplink outage rate

Mobile teletrauma use case:

Higher spectral efficiency due to short range and well isolation

With massive deployment, a solution for ubiquitous mobile broadband access

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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