Wang, HeReed, Mark C.Zhou, Xiangyun2014-04-302014-04-302013-06Wang, H., Zhou, X., & Reed, M. (2013): Analytical evaluation of coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (pp. 5974 - 5979). Budapest: IEEE.1550-3607http://hdl.handle.net/1885/11596This paper proposes a coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment scheme, in which the femtocell base stations (BSs) can decide whether to be active or inactive depending on their distances from the macrocell BSs. Specifically, as the areas close to the macrocell BSs already have satisfactory cellular coverage, the femtocell BSs located inside such areas are kept to be inactive. Thus, all the active femtocells are located in the poor macrocell coverage areas. Based on a stochastic geometric framework, the coverage probability can be analyzed with tractable results. Surprisingly, the results show that the proposed scheme, although with a lower defacto femtocell density, can achieve better coverage performance than that keeping all femtocells in the entire network to be active. The analytical results further identify the achievable optimal performance of the new scheme, which provides mobile operators a guideline for femtocell deployment and operation.H. Wang is with the Australian National University and NICTA. NICTA is funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program. This work was supported by the Australian Research Councils Discovery Projects funding scheme (Project No. DP110102548 and Project No. DP130101760).application/pdfen-AUIEEEAnalytical modelsApproximation methodsInterferenceMacrocell networksRandom variablesSignal to noise ratio10.1109/ICC.2013.66555552015-12-11