Femtocells: Past, present, and future

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 497-508

  Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a   Claussen, Holger ^b   Dohler, Mischa ^c   Rangan, Sundeep ^d   Reed, Mark C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c CTTC ^*  (Spain)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3GPP; Cellular Networks; Femtocells; Heterogeneous Networks

Indexed keywords

3GPP; CELL TECHNOLOGY; CELLULAR NETWORK; FEMTOCELLS; NETWORK EVOLUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

BASE STATIONS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; TEACHING; WI-FI;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84859165555     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120401     Document Type: Review

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