Design and Deployment of Small Cell Networks

Alagan Anpalagan, Mehdi Bennis, Rath Vannithamby

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107056718
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316419977
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Mobile & Wireless Communications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This comprehensive resource covers everything you need to know about small cell networks, from design, to analysis, optimization and deployment. Detailing fundamental concepts as well as more advanced topics, and describing emerging trends, challenges and recent research results, this book explains how you can improve performance, decision making, resource management, and energy efficiency in next generation wireless networks. Key topics covered include green small cell networks and associated trade-offs, optimized design and performance analysis, backhauling and traffic overloading, context-aware self-organizing networks, deployment strategies and mobility management in large scale HetNets. Written by leading experts in academia and industry and including tools and techniques for small cell network design and deployment, this is an ideal resource for graduate students, researchers and industry practitioners working in communications and networking.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• 1 Mobility performance optimization for 3GPP LTE HetNets
• 2 Design and performance analysis of multi-radio small cell networks
• 3 Dynamic TDD small cell management
• 4 3GPP RAN standards for small cells
• 5 Dense networks of small cells
• 6 Traffic offloading scenarios for heterogeneous networks
• 7 Required number of small cell access points in heterogeneous wireless networks
• 8 Small cell deployments: system scenarios, performance, and analysis
• 9 Temporary cognitive small cell networks for rapid and emergency deployments
• 10 Long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced activities in small cell networks
• 11 Game theory and learning techniques for self-organization in small cell networks
• 12 Energy efficient strategies with BS sleep mode in green small cell networks
• 13 Mobility management in small cell heterogeneous networks
• 14 The art of deploying small cells: field trial experiments, system design, performance prediction, and deployment feasibility
• 15 Centralized self-optimization of interference management in LTE-A HetNets
• 16 Self-organized ICIC for SCN
• 17 Large-scale deployment and scalability
• 18 Energy efficient heterogeneous networks
• 19 Time- and frequency-domain e-ICIC with single- and multi-flow carrier aggregation in HetNets
• Index