The Economic Effects of Sharing Femtocells

Yun, Se-Young; Ye, Yi; Cho, Dong-Ho; Mo, Jeonghoon

doi:10.1109/jsac.2012.120409

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“…An interesting line of academic work has considered various pricing and game theoretic approaches [114], [115]. This theme is explored in three articles in this special issue [55], [60], [68], that reveal interesting interplay between the economic aspects of pricing and the physical layer aspects of wireless network interactions.…”

Section: ) Operator Business Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future

Andrews

Claußen²,

Döhler

et al. 2012

IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun.

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Abstract-Femtocells, despite their name, pose a potentially large disruption to the carefully planned cellular networks that now connect a majority of the planet's citizens to the Internet and with each other. Femtocells -which by the end of 2010 already outnumbered traditional base stations and at the time of publication are being deployed at a rate of about five million a year -both enhance and interfere with this network in ways that are not yet well understood. Will femtocells be crucial for offloading data and video from the creaking traditional network? Or will femtocells prove more trouble than they are worth, undermining decades of careful base station deployment with unpredictable interference while delivering only limited gains? Or possibly neither: are femtocells just a "flash in the pan"; an exciting but short-lived stage of network evolution that will be rendered obsolete by improved WiFi offloading, new backhaul regulations and/or pricing, or other unforeseen technological developments? This tutorial article overviews the history of femtocells, demystifies their key aspects, and provides a preview of the next few years, which the authors believe will see a rapid acceleration towards small cell technology. In the course of the article, we also position and introduce the articles that headline this special issue.

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Section: ) Operator Business Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future

Andrews

Claußen²,

Döhler

et al. 2012

IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun.

1,077

703

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“…Thus, they rely on the availability of wired connections and infrastructure installations. Although there are few efforts that address the openness of femtocells [34], they mostly require already registered users, so the economic models adopted in those networks are based on different business aspects [35]. Also, femtocells connect to the operator's network over the Internet through a home gateway that includes security functionalities.…”

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A Framework for Dynamic Network Architecture and Topology Optimization

Shafigh

Lorenzo

Glisic

et al. 2016

IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking

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Abstract-A new paradigm in wireless network access is presented and analyzed. In this concept, certain classes of wireless terminals can be turned temporarily into an access point (AP) anytime while connected to the Internet. This creates a dynamic network architecture (DNA) since the number and location of these APs vary in time. In this paper, we present a framework to optimize different aspects of this architecture. First, the dynamic AP association problem is addressed with the aim to optimize the network by choosing the most convenient APs to provide the quality-of-service (QoS) levels demanded by the users with the minimum cost. Then, an economic model is developed to compensate the users for serving as APs and, thus, augmenting the network resources. The users' security investment is also taken into account in the AP selection. A preclustering process of the DNA is proposed to keep the optimization process feasible in a high dense network. To dynamically reconfigure the optimum topology and adjust it to the traffic variations, a new specific encoding of genetic algorithm (GA) is presented. Numerical results show that GA can provide the optimum topology up to two orders of magnitude faster than exhaustive search for network clusters, and the improvement significantly increases with the cluster size.

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“…The MNOs should properly split their limited spectrum between the traditional macrocellu- The spectrum allocated to HetNet may be used as shared or dedicated spectrum [14]. In shared spectrum, MNO share the same carriers assigned for macrocell to small cells and the interference should be managed.…”

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Mobile Traffic Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks-Based Small Cell Technology

El-atty

Gharsseldien

2015

Arab J Sci Eng

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In this paper, we propose an efficient heterogeneous network (HetNet) architecture with coexisting small cell technology to provide capacity and coverage expanding in 3G and 4G mobile networks. A hierarchical HetNet layout comprises of three layers macro-, metro-and femtocell. The metrocell is employed as an intermediate layer in the integrated femtocellular/macrocellular network, which operates in a complementary fashion, in order to manage the handover traffic between the edge layers. Consequently, the femtocell serves indoor traffic activity of femto users, while metrocell serves the outdoor traffic activities as well as the overflow traffic from femtocells. The overall HetNet is completed with the macrocell overlay layer, which serves only the macro users and the overflowed traffic from the underlay layer. Then, we develop a realistic teletraffic framework in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed HetNet. We show both analytically and by simulation that the proposed HetNet architecture with coexisting small cells is able to offload traffic from traditional macrocellular network in terms of reducing the blocking probability.B Saied M. Abd El-atty

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The Economic Effects of Sharing Femtocells

Cited by 66 publications

References 20 publications

Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future

Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future

A Framework for Dynamic Network Architecture and Topology Optimization

Mobile Traffic Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks-Based Small Cell Technology

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