Small Cell Deployments: Recent Advances and Research Challenges
Abstract
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the 5th International Workshop on Femtocells held at King's College London, UK, on the 13th and 14th of February, 2012.The workshop hosted cutting-edge presentations about the latest advances and research challenges in small cell roll-outs and heterogeneous cellular networks. This paper provides some cutting edge information on the developments of Self-Organizing Networks (SON) for small cell deployments, as well as related standardization supports on issues such as carrier aggregation (CA), Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques, and enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC), etc. Furthermore, some recent efforts on issues such as energy-saving as well as Machine Learning (ML) techniques on resource allocation and multi-cell cooperation are described. Finally, current developments on simulation tools and small cell deployment scenarios are presented. These topics collectively represent the current trends in small cell deployments.
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@article{arxiv.1211.0575,
title = {Small Cell Deployments: Recent Advances and Research Challenges},
author = {Zubin Bharucha and Emilio Calvanese and Jiming Chen and Xiaoli Chu and Afef Feki and Antonio De Domenico and Ana Galindo-Serrano and Weisi Guo and Raymond Kwan and Jimin Liu and David López-Pérez and Massod Maqbool and Ying Peng and Samir Perlaza and Guillaume de la Roche and Serkan Uygungelen and Alvaro Valcarce and Jie Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0575},
year = {2012}
}
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19 pages, 22 figures