Introduction

For satisfying the increasing requirement of throughput and indoor coverage, small cell becomes a hot research topic these year. There are a lot of schemes in small cell system, among them, femtocell ("femtocell" is used in IEEE, and “Home Node / Home eNodeB” ("e" is the abbreviation of "enhanced") in 3GPP) is a marked development direction. Hundreds and thousands of proposals, papers have been published so far. In the following, some important resources are listed for the guys touch this field for the first time and desire to know the basic knowledge of femtocell.

eBook is the best tutorial, especially Femtocells: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Technology written by Simon R. Saunders. In the book, you can find the map of femtocell, each location, such as femtocell market, network architecture, etc., is labelled clearly. If you desire more, standard file is the next  destination. Although they seem dull at the first glance, you can get every configuration you want in these technical reports.

White papers in Femto Forum are good reference, but the forum is not the standardization organization.

If you are a student, paper is your target and xxx transaction  is your battlefield. The femtocell series in IEEE Communication Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 9 can be your first tutor in the field of theoretical research on femtocell.

Finally, I hope this collection will be useful to you :)


Resource

eBook


3GPP

Standard
You can find the lastest version of each technical report following through the website link. 3GPP TR 36.921 is presented as an example given in appendix A.

  • 3GPP TR 36.921, Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); FDD Home eNode B (HeNB) Radio Frequency (RF) requirements analysis
  • 3GPP TR 36.922, Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); TDD Home eNode B (HeNB) Radio Frequency (RF) requirements analysis
  • 3GPP TR 25.967, Home Node B (HNB) Radio Frequency (RF) requirements (FDD)
  • 3GPP TS 22.220, Service requirements for Home Node B (HNB) and Home eNode B (HeNB)
  • 3GPP TR 23.830, Architecture aspects of Home Node B (HNB) / Home enhanced Node B (HeNB)

Simulation Assumptions and Parameters

  • R4-092042, Simulation assumptions and parameters for FDD HeNB RF requirements, Alcatel-Lucent, picoChip Designs, Vodafone


Website

3GPP
Femtocell standardization is still moving forward, and one meeting is held per month on average. Hundreds of proposals in each meeting and meeting reports (summary of proposals for each meeting)  are available (3GPP RAN4 is provided as an example in appendix B) in the website link in the following. (Femtocell standardization is mainly opened in RAN1, RAN3 and RAN4. There are some other specification groups, such as RAN 2, SA1, etc., which are not listed here for simplicity. More details on 3GPP 3G HNB (EXCLUDING HeNB) specification overview is available in Standardization of Femtocells in 3GPP)

Femto Forum

IEEE

 

Tips

 

 

Appendix A

 

Appendix B

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