Self-organization for LTE enterprise femtocells

Femtocells are envisioned to be deployed in indoor environments in order to improve both radio coverage and system capacity. This paper focuses on the self-organization of enterprise femtocells, which is certainly more challenging than that of home femtocells. In the context of 3GPP LTE, we propose solutions to automatically tune parameters such as radio spectrum, pilot power, resource blocks, and access control mechanisms for optimal performance via self-organization network (SON). Furthermore, on-site radio measurements and system-level simulations are used to benchmark their performance.

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