Femtocells: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Technology

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Table 1.1 Growth of operator revenues for leading operators in Q3 2007, relative to the previous 12-month period

Table 1.2 Comparison of femtocells and other wireless devices

Table 3.1 Mobile penetration rates

Table 3.2 Economic pressures on carriers

Table 3.3 Comparison of alternative fixed-mobile convergence solutions

Table 3.4 Femtocell market forecasts

Table 4.1 Path loss exponents n for the ITU-R model

Table 4.2 Floor penetration factors, L_f(n_f)[dB] for the ITU-R P.1238 model

Table 4.3 Potential interference scenarios for femtocells

Table 4.4 Interference mitigation techniques for femtocells

Table 4.5 Operator feedback from dense femtocell trial

Table 4.6 Comparison of overall network capacity with and without femtocells

Table 4.7 Additional spectrum emission limit for Home BS, BS maximum output power 6 ≤ P ≤ 20 dBm

Table 4.8 Additional spectrum emission limit for Home BS, BS maximum output power P < 6 dBm

Table 4.9 Home BS output power for adjacent channel operator protection

Table 4.10 SAR exposure limits (W/kg)

Table 4.11 ICNIRP reference field strength levels (Vm⁻¹)

Table 4.12 IEEE reference electric field and power density levels

Table 7.1 Overview of cryptographic algorithms in the air interfaces

Table 7.2 IPsec deployment details

Table 8.1 Summary of WCDMA femtocell standards in 3GPP

Table 8.2 Summary of 3GPP2 femtocell standards

Table 9.1 European Commission targets for the power consumption of femtocells

Table A1 Prefixes used in SI units

Table A2