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