Planning and performance evaluation of OFDM/OFDMA multi-carrier cellular systems with femto cells
Romeo Giuliano, Pierpaolo Loreti, Franco Mazzenga, G. Santella · 2009
Femto-cell can be considered as a home base station (BS) that can be installed to improve bandwidth availability and coverage for enabling new applications in the home. Actual 3G-based femto BSs are seen as an alternative to Wi-Fi hotspots and/or as a complementary technology. In the very near future 3G and 4G cellular networks will converge on OFDM/OFDMA wireless access interface. Thus the planning and the performance evaluation of OFDM/OFDMA cellular system including femto cells is of interest.