Financial Analysis of a Pico-Cellular Home Network Deployment
- 1 June 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 5604-5609
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icc.2007.929
Abstract
The increasing demand for higher data rates in cellular networks has resulted in a trend to smaller cell sizes (femto cells) and pico-cellular hot spot coverage. In this paper the financial impact of pico-cellular home base station deployment in a macro-cellular network is explored. For increasing data rates, it becomes evident that current macro-cellular network deployment becomes less economically viable. It is shown that in urban areas a combination of publicly accessible home base stations, randomly deployed by the end user, and macro-cells for area coverage, deployed by an operator, can result in significant reductions (up to 70% in the investigated scenario) of the total annual network costs compared to a pure macro-cellular network.Keywords
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