Limited access to OFDMA femtocells
- 1 September 2009
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 21669570,p. 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pimrc.2009.5450325
Abstract
Femtocells are a promising solution for the provision of high indoor coverage and capacity. Furthermore, OFDMA-based femtocells have proven to be highly versatile when dealing with cross-layer co-channel interference thanks to the allocation of frequency subchannels. However, concerns still exist related to the impact of the different access methods to femtocells in an overlayed network. Femtocells based on a Closed Subscribers Group, where only device owners are allowed connectivity introduce severe interference to macrocell users. On the other hand, Open Access femtocells where any user can connect, does not bring many advantages to the femtocell owner. In this paper, an intermediate access method based on a limited access is proposed. The performance of the model is evaluated throughout system-level simulations and it is shown that limited access contributes to seriously reduce cross-layer interference while guaranteeing a minimum performance to the femtocell subscribers.Keywords
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