QUALITATIVE COMPARISON OF WI-FI TO FEMTOCELL (HNB) FOR INDOOR WIRELESS DATA ACCESS
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2020-03-20
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Zaria Journal of Electrical Engineering Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria – Nigeria
Abstract
The increasing pressure on spectrum resources of cellular networks has prompted
service providers to identify the use of femtocells and Wi-Fi as options for
increasing network quality and capacity for indoor data access. This work seeks
to make a qualitative comparison of Wi-Fi and femtocell for indoor data access in
a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) heterogeneous network, identifying which network
access technology serves better for indoor data delivery, using video streaming
and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as services of interest. The performance
evaluation was carried out experimentally by using a live Wi-Fi and a Femtocell
access point connected via same backhaul. A user equipment with Quality of
Service (QoS) parameters measurement capabilities was used to measure
parameters of interests from both devices under same measurement conditions for
in different indoor scenarios multiple times. We observed differences in the QoS
experiences in different scenarios for the access technologies observed, Wi-Fi
showed better performance in all of the categories of measurements.
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Ahmed, O. M., Adebowale, Q. R., Imam-Fulani, Y. O., Balogun, M. O., & Ajani, A. A. (2020). QUALITATIVE COMPARISON OF WI-FI TO FEMTOCELL (HNB) FOR INDOOR WIRELESS DATA ACCESS. Zaria Journal of Electrical Engineering Technology, 9(1), 15-28.