A building architecture model for predicting femtocell interference in next-generation networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5059-5063

  Mirahmadi, M ^a   Shami, A ^a   Al Dweik, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4G NETWORKS; ARCHITECTURE MODELS; DEVELOPED MODEL; FEMTOCELLS; FLOORPLANS; INDOOR-TO-OUTDOOR; MACRO CELLS; MUTUAL INTERFERENCE; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; POWER LEAKAGE; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SIGNAL LEVEL; SIGNAL PROPAGATION MODEL; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK;

BUILDING MATERIALS; FEMTOCELL; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84871980756     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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