Femtocells: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Technology

Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

1 Introduction to Femtocells

Simon Saunders

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Why Femtocells? The Market Context

1.3 The Nature of Mobile Broadband Demand

1.4 What is a Femtocell?

1.4.1 Femtocell Attributes

1.4.2 Femtocell Standards

1.4.3 Types of Femtocell

1.5 Applications for Femtocells

1.6 What a Femtocell is not

1.7 The Importance of ‘Zero-Touch’

1.8 User Benefits

1.9 Operator Motivations and Economic Impact

1.10 Operator Responses

1.11 Challenges

1.12 Chapter Overview

2 Small Cell Background and Success Factors

Simon Saunders

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Small Cell Motivations

2.2.1 Cellular Principles

2.2.2 Conventional Cell Types: Why ‘Femtocells’?

2.2.3 Challenges of Achieving Indoor Coverage from Outdoor Macrocells

2.2.4 Spectrum Efficiency

2.2.5 Geometry Factors

2.2.6 The Backhaul Challenge

2.3 Other Small-Cell Systems

2.3.1 Overview

2.3.2 Picocells

2.3.3 Distributed Antenna Systems

2.3.4 Wireless Local Area Networks

2.4 The Small-Cell Landscape

2.5 Emergence of the Femtocell – Critical Success Factors

2.5.1 Mobile Data Adoption and Revenue Growth

2.5.2 Broadband Adoption

2.5.3 Connecting Four Billion Users – And Counting

2.5.4 Internet Applications

2.5.5 Fixed–Mobile Substitution

2.5.6 User Device Availability

2.5.7 Processing Power and Cost

2.6 Conclusions

3 Market Issues for Femtocells

Stuart Carlaw

3.1 Key Benefits of a Femtocell from Market Perspective

3.1.1 In-Home Coverage

3.1.2 ...