Economics of Femtocells

• Published in: GLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Shetty, N., Parekh, S., Walrand, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2009
• Subjects: Base stations; Cost accounting; Degradation; Femtocells; Frequency; Interference; Macrocell networks; Pricing; Quality of service; Throughput

Femtocells or home base stations are a proposed solution to the problem of degraded indoor service from the macrocell base station in future 4G data networks. In this paper, we study user incentives for the adoption of femtocells and their resulting impact on network operator revenues. We model a mo...