Femtocells: Design & Application

this in-depth resource provides comprehensive coverage of femtocells and how they integrate with existing 3g and emerging wireless protocols and standards. Femtocells: Design & Application provides a technical roadmap for migrating to femtocell technology, covering network architecture, media protocols, system performance, and security issues. Detailed architectural diagrams illustrate various deployment options. This is a practical guide to the pioneering technology that enables extended indoor service coverage.

Femtocells: Design & Application covers:

• The impact on handset design with respect to cost, size, and power consumption
• Cellular candidate radio access technologies that aid in femtocell deployment, including 3GPP LTE
• System analysis, including indoor path loss models and 3GPP RF requirements
• Femtocell network architecture and analysis
• Registrations, call establishment, call release, and handoff scenarios
• VoIP and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• Media protocols over IP
• Security vulnerabilities and solutions
• Managing Quality of Service in IP-based networks offering multimedia solutions
• 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network architecture