Femtocell – A Review

Abstract

Femtocells, in spite of their name, pose a theoretically great disruption to the sensibly intentional cellular networks that nowadays connect a common of the planet’s citizens to the Internet and with respectively. Femtocells – which by the finish of 2010 by now outnumbered outdated base stations and at the time of publication are being used at a speed of about five million a year – together improve and delay with this network in ways that are not yet fit implicit. Will femtocells be vital for offloading data and video from the squeaking old-style network? Or will femtocells demonstrate more distress than they are value, depression periods of cautious base station disposition with impulsive interference while delivering only limited gains? Or perhaps neither: are femtocells just a “flash in the pan”; an exciting but short-lived stage of network development that will be purified outdated by enhanced WiFi offloading, new backhaul guidelines and/or pricing, or other unexpected scientific growths? This lecture artifact indications the antiquity of femtocells, clarifies their significant features, and delivers a showing of the next few years, which the authors have faith in will see a fast hastening in the direction of small cell skill. In the way of the article, we also place and present the articles that important this special issue.

Keywords: broadband DSL, HNB architecture, extensible authentication protocol