Femtocells: Design & Application

Cutting-edge femtocell design and implementation techniques

This in-depth resource provides comprehensive coverage of femtocells and how they integrate with existing 3G and emerging wireless protocols and standards. Femtocells: Design & Application provides a technical roadmap for migrating to femtocell technology, covering network architecture, media protocols, system performance, and security issues. Detailed architectural diagrams illustrate various deployment options. This is a practical guide to the pioneering technology that enables extended indoor service coverage.

Femtocells: Design & Application covers:

The impact on handset design with respect to cost, size, and power consumption

Cellular candidate radio access technologies that aid in femtocell deployment, including 3GPP LTE

System analysis, including indoor path loss models and 3GPP RF requirements

Femtocell network architecture and analysis

Registrations, call establishment, call release, and handoff scenarios

VoIP and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Media protocols over IP

Security vulnerabilities and solutions

Managing Quality of Service in IP-based networks offering multimedia solutions

3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network architecture