• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권5B호
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• pp.741-752
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• 2010

The ability to seamlessly switch between the macro networks and femtocell networks is a key driver for femtocell network deployment. The handover procedures for the integrated femtocell/macrocell networks differ from the existing handovers. Some modifications of existing network and protocol architecture for the integration of femtocell networks with the existing macrocell networks are also essential. These modifications change the signal flow for handover procedures due to different 2-tier cell (macrocell and femtocell) environment. The handover between two networks should be performed with minimum signaling. A frequent and unnecessary handover is another problem for hierarchical femtocell/macrocell network environment that must be minimized. This work studies the details mobility management schemes for small and medium scale femtocell network deployment. To do that, firstly we present two different network architectures for small scale and medium scale WCDMA femtocell deployment. The details handover call flow for these two network architectures and CAC scheme to minimize the unnecessary handovers are proposed for the integrated femtocell/macrocell networks. The numerical analysis for the proposed M/M/N/N queuing scheme and the simulation results of the proposed CAC scheme demonstrate the handover call control performances for femtocell environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.508-522
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• 2011

Femtocell is an economical solution to provide high speed indoor communication instead of the conventional macro-cellular networks. Especially, OFDMA femtocell is considered in the next generation cellular network such as 3GPP LTE and mobile WiMAX system. Although the femtocell has great advantages to accommodate indoor users, interference management problem is a critical issue to operate femtocell network. Existing OFDMA resource management algorithms only consider optimizing system-centric metric, and cannot manage the co-channel interference. Moreover, it is hard to cooperate with other femtocells to control the interference, since the self-configurable characteristics of femtocell. This paper proposes a novel interference-aware resource allocation algorithm for OFDMA femtocell networks. The proposed algorithm allocates resources according to a new objective function which reflects the effect of interference, and the heuristic algorithm is also introduced to reduce the complexity of the original problem. The Monte-Carlo simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm compared to the existing solutions.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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• pp.64-68
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• 2007

Commercial WiBro and 3G HSDPA services are launched last year in order to provide high speed wireless Internet access and multimedia service. Currently mobile communication service providers concentrate on the deployment of indoor mobile network since indoor traffic is remarkably increased. For fine indoor wireless communication, an installation of access point system via Public IP network which is called Femtocell is required. The development of indoor Femtocell system must be considered in the viewpoint of low hardware complexity, cost reduction, interlocking with WiBro/HSDPA network without change of network component and easy element management. In this paper, we review the implementation issue and technology of dual mode AP which provides WiBro and HSDPA signal to the user simultaneously. Especially, we describe on the HSDPA Femtocell standardization status and possible 3 types of HSDPA communication module development design. Furthermore we analyze the merits and demerits of each HSDPA Femtocell design type and propose a system which enables handover between indoor HSDPA Femtocell and outdoor commercial HSDPA mobile network.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.207-220
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• 2009

A large number of phone calls and data services will take place in indoor environments. In Long Term Evolution (LTE), femtocell, as a home base station for indoor coverage extension and wideband data service, has recently gained significant interests from operators and consumers. Since femtocell is frequently turned on and off by a personal owner, not by a network operator, one of the key issues is that femtocell should be identified autonomously without system information to support handover from macrocell to femtocell. In this paper, we propose a dynamic reservation scheme of Physical Cell Identities (PCI) for 3GPP LTE femtocell systems. There are several reserving types, and each type reserves a different number of PCIs for femtocell. The transition among the types depends on the deployed number of femtocells, or the number of PCI confusion events. Accordingly, flexible use of PCIs can decrease PCI confusion. This reduces searching time for femtocell, and it is helpful for the quick handover from macrocell to femtocell. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme reduces average delay for identifying detected cells, and increases network capacity within equal delay constraints.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.384-394
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• 2014

The femtocell overlaid cellular network (FOCN) has been used to enhance the capacity of existing cellular systems. To obtain the desired system performance, both cross-tier interference and co-tier interference in an FOCN need to be managed. This paper proposes an interference management scheme that adaptively constructs a femtocell cluster, which is a group of femtocell base stations that share the same frequency band. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed scheme can enhance the performance of the macrocell-tier and maintain a greater signal to interference-plus-noise ratio than the outage level can for about 99% of femtocell users.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.3-8
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• 2009

본고에서는 Femtocell의 장비 특성을 고려한 3G Network에서의 활용 방안에 대해 알아보고, 상용 서비스 제공 시 예상되는 Femtocell 기술 이슈 분석을 통해 향후 3G 이동전화 Network에 적용하기 위해 개선되어야 하는 기술 사항에 대해서 알아본다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 2G/3G/4G의 이동통신 기술을 기업에 적용하는 Femtocell을 이용해서 기업 무선망을 구축하는 환경을 목표로 한다. 이때 인터넷서비스사업자 혹은 기업이 이동통신망 기반의 응용 서비스를 쉽게 만들 수 있는 '개방형 무선망 Application Programming Interface(API)'를 기업향 Peer-to-Peer 서비스에 적용하는 방안에 대하여 제안한다. 이를 통해서 언제 어디서든 어떠한 기기를 통해서도 일관된 기업 서비스를 보다 단순화된 네트워 환경에서 향상된 서비스 품질과 함께 제공할 수 있다. 제안한 방안은 성능 개선을 평가하기 위하여, 대표적인 분산형 P2P 서비스인 Skype와 정성적인 성능 비교를 수행하였으며, 이를 통해서 보다 적은 개수의 서버와 절차를 지원하면서도 보다 향상된 서비스 품질을 제공하는 것을 확인 하였다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2008년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.237-241
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• 2008

Femtocells are cellular access points that connect to a mobile operator's network using residential DSL or cable broadband connections. They have been developed to work with a range of different cellular standards including CDMA, GSM and UMTS. Like legacy base station, the frequency accuracy and phase alignment is necessary for ensuring the quality of service (QoS) for applications such as voice, real-time video, wireless hand-off, and data over a converged access medium at the femtocell. But, the GPS has some problem to be used at the femtocell, because it is difficult to set-up, depends on the satellite condition, and very expensive. So, some techniques are discussed to alternate with the legacy GPS system. NTP, PTP, Synchronous Ethernet use the ethernet to synchronize distributed clocks in packet networks. AGPS support reliable position information than the legacy GPS in poor signal conditions. But, These method also have some problems. So, hybrid timing method like A-GPS+PTP and TV+GPS was developed to make up the weak point of GPS. This paper introduces the each method and compare each other and y propose much better solution for timing synchronization at the Femtocell

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권12B호
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• pp.1611-1622
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• 2011

동기 획득은 펨토셀 기지국의 안정적인 동작을 위해 가져야 할 주요 기술적 과제 중 하나이다. 특히 펨토셀 기지국의 경우는 설치되는 환경적 특수성에 의해 제약을 받는다. 첫째 펨토셀 기지국이 위치하는 실내 환경에서의 전파 감쇄와 상호 간섭등의 제약 요인이다. 둘째, 펨토셀 기지국이 연결되는 백홀 네트워크에 따른 제약이 있다. 이 밖에도, 무선 연결성을 제공하는 다른 기술의 AP와 같이 기술 구성에 있어서 저 비용이 요구되는 기술이어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 실내에서 위치 측위와 타이밍 획득을 위한 기술들을 살펴보고 AGNSS-Packet Timing 하이브리드 기술의 필요성 및 진행 중인 관련 표준화와 연관된 내용을 다루도록 한다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 먼저 최근 급격히 증가하는 모바일 데이터 트래픽을 오프로드(Offload)시키는 Local IP Access(LIPA) 기술을 펨토셀 네트워크와 함께 소개한다. 이후, 전형적인 이동통신 시스템, 펨토셀 기반 시스템, 그리고 펨토셀과 LIPA를 함께 이용하는 시스템에서 댁내 모바일 데이터 트래픽을 전송할 때, 트래픽 전송시간과 이동통신 사업자망으로 전송되는 모바일 데이터 트래픽 확률에 대한 성능을 분석한다. 분석결과를 통해 차세대 이동통신 시스템에서 펨토셀과 LIPA를 함께 이용하면 이동통신 사업자망으로 전송되는 모바일 데이터 트래픽 부하를 감소시킬 뿐만 아니라 댁내 모바일 트래픽의 전송시간을 크게 줄이는 효과도 얻을 수 있음을 보인다. 즉, 전형적인 이동통신 시스템과 펨토셀 기반 시스템은 펨토셀과 LIPA를 함께 이용하는 시스템보다 인터넷 지연시간이 10ms에서 약 3배와 4배 정도 길었고, 인터넷 지연시간이 100ms에서 약 14배와 26배 정도 긴 결과를 보였다.