@inbook{2a82b697bc154937be029b8634ad60bc,
title = "Financial analysis of a pico-cellular home network deployment",
abstract = "The increasing demand for higher data rates in cellular networks has resulted in a trend to smaller cell sizes (femto cells) and pico-cellular hot spot coverage. In this paper the financial impact of pico-cellular home base station deployment in a macro-cellular network is explored. For increasing data rates, it becomes evident that current macro-cellular network deployment becomes less economically viable. It is shown that in urban areas a combination of publicly accessible home base stations, randomly deployed by the end user, and macro-cells for area coverage, deployed by an operator, can result in significant reductions (up to 70\% in the investigated scenario) of the total annual network costs compared to a pure macro-cellular network.",
keywords = "CapEx, Financial analysis, Hot-spot coverage, Macro-cells, Network deployment, OpEx, Pico-cells",
author = "Holger Claussen and Ho, \{Lester T.W.\} and Samuel, \{Louis G.\}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1109/ICC.2007.929",
language = "English",
isbn = "1424403537",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Communications",
pages = "5604--5609",
booktitle = "2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'07",
note = "2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'07 ; Conference date: 24-06-2007 Through 28-06-2007",
}